Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Why does everyone want a Miracle fruit plant?
Miracle Fruit - Synsepalum dulcificum
❓ Why does everyone want a Miracle fruit plant?
✨ Because it's pure magic for your taste buds! The small red berry of Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) contains a natural compound called miraculin that temporarily makes sour things taste sweet. Lemons taste like lemonade, vinegar like candy! It's fun, fascinating, and even helpful - especially for those undergoing chemotherapy who need help enjoying food again. A miracle? Pretty close!
📚 Learn more from earlier posts:
🛒 Bring the magic home - plant your own Miracle Fruit!
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✨ Because it's pure magic for your taste buds! The small red berry of Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) contains a natural compound called miraculin that temporarily makes sour things taste sweet. Lemons taste like lemonade, vinegar like candy! It's fun, fascinating, and even helpful - especially for those undergoing chemotherapy who need help enjoying food again. A miracle? Pretty close!
📚 Learn more from earlier posts:
- ▫️ What is the miracle behind the Miracle fruit?
- ▫️How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle?
🛒 Bring the magic home - plant your own Miracle Fruit!
#Food_Forest #Nature_Wonders #Remedies #Fun_Facts
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How to make your own coffee from homegrown beans
Coffee Tree in a cup (Coffea arabica)
Coffee Tree with fruit (Coffea arabica)
Coffee beans (Coffea arabica)
Coffee beans (Coffea arabica)
Coffee beans (Coffea arabica)
Coffee cherries on a tree (Coffea arabica)
☕️ How to make your own coffee from homegrown beans
Q: Can you make coffee from your own tree? Isn't there a process involved to prepare beans for it?
A: Absolutely! Yes, it is quite a process... But homegrown coffee lets you enjoy the freshest, chemical-free beans with rich flavor and the satisfaction of growing it yourself. Besides, it's fun! Below is a quick guide how to grow and make your own coffee from freshly harvested coffee fruit (called "cherries").
Let roasted beans cool completely, then grind them just before brewing. Enjoy your homemade cup of fresh coffee!
🛒 Grow it. Pick it. Roast it. Drink it. Buy your coffee tree now!
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Q: Can you make coffee from your own tree? Isn't there a process involved to prepare beans for it?
A: Absolutely! Yes, it is quite a process... But homegrown coffee lets you enjoy the freshest, chemical-free beans with rich flavor and the satisfaction of growing it yourself. Besides, it's fun! Below is a quick guide how to grow and make your own coffee from freshly harvested coffee fruit (called "cherries").
- Harvest the ripe cherries
- Remove the beans
- Dry the beans
- Remove the parchment
- Roast the beans
- Cool and grind
Pick the bright red fruits when they are fully ripe. These contain the coffee beans inside.
Squeeze the cherries to pop out the seeds (beans). Rinse off any pulp and soak them in water for 1-2 days to ferment and remove the slimy coating.
Spread the clean beans on a tray in a sunny, dry spot. Let them dry for 1-2 weeks, turning them daily, until they feel hard and papery.
Once dried, crack and remove the thin husk around each bean. You now have green coffee beans ready to roast.
Use a dry skillet or oven. Heat until beans turn brown and fragrant, stirring constantly. The longer you roast, the darker and stronger the flavor.
Let roasted beans cool completely, then grind them just before brewing. Enjoy your homemade cup of fresh coffee!
🛒 Grow it. Pick it. Roast it. Drink it. Buy your coffee tree now!
📚 Learn more from previous posts:
- • Coffee trees in bloom
- • Brew Your Future: Grow Your Own Coffee
- • What is coffee made of?
- • Why Coffee tree is the best gift plant
- • Top 10 fruit you'll ever need for your health benefits: #2. Coffee Tree
- • What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?
- • Video: growing a Coffee tree
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Coffee trees are in bloom!
Coffee trees in bloom
☕️ Coffee trees are in bloom!
☕️ Coffee prices are climbing, supplies are tightening, and drought in Brazil is hitting hard
The best time to plant a Coffee Tree was yesterday - the next best time is right now!
🎥 Our Coffee trees (Coffea arabica) are bursting with blooms, promising a fresh harvest and home-roasted coffee like no other.
It's time to take your morning cup into your own hands!
🛒 Grow it. Pick it. Roast it. Drink it. Buy your coffee tree now!
📚 Learn more from previous posts:
#Food_Forest #Container_Garden #Shade_Garden #Discover
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☕️ Coffee prices are climbing, supplies are tightening, and drought in Brazil is hitting hard
The best time to plant a Coffee Tree was yesterday - the next best time is right now!
🎥 Our Coffee trees (Coffea arabica) are bursting with blooms, promising a fresh harvest and home-roasted coffee like no other.
It's time to take your morning cup into your own hands!
🛒 Grow it. Pick it. Roast it. Drink it. Buy your coffee tree now!
📚 Learn more from previous posts:
- • Brew Your Future: Grow Your Own Coffee
- • What is coffee made of?
- • Why Coffee tree is the best gift plant
- • Top 10 fruit you'll ever need for your health benefits: #2. Coffee Tree
- • What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?
- • Video: growing a Coffee tree
#Food_Forest #Container_Garden #Shade_Garden #Discover
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How to make chocolate dumplings in mango sauce: exotic recipe
chocolate dumplings in mango sauce
How to make chocolate dumplings in mango sauce: exotic recipe
Ready to sneak this onto your dessert menu under a name like "Tropics Lost in Vienna"?
Ingredients
• 200 g (1 ½ cups) all-purpose flour
• 70 g (2.5 oz) dark chocolate
🔸 For the mango sauce:
🔪 Instructions
🛒 Plant your own Mango Tree and always have mango supply
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Ready to sneak this onto your dessert menu under a name like "Tropics Lost in Vienna"?
Ingredients
- 🔸 For the dough:
• 200 g (1 ½ cups) all-purpose flour
- • 1 egg
- • 3 tbsp water
- • Pinch of salt
- 🔸 For the filling:
• 70 g (2.5 oz) dark chocolate
- • 3 tbsp heavy cream
- • 1 tsp cocoa powder (optional)
- • 1 tsp sugar (if chocolate is too bitter)
🔸 For the mango sauce:
- • 1 ripe mango (or 150 g mango puree)
- • 100 ml (just under ½ cup) heavy cream
- • 1-2 tsp honey
- • 1 tsp lime or lemon juice
- • Pinch of salt
🔪 Instructions
- ➡Make the dough: Mix flour, egg, water, and salt into a soft dough. Knead, wrap, and rest for 30 minutes.
- ➡Prepare the filling: Melt chocolate with cream over a water bath. Stir in sugar and cocoa if using. Let cool until thick.
- ➡Shape the dumplings: Roll out dough, cut into circles, fill with chocolate, and seal. Freeze for 10 minutes to firm up.
- ➡Cook: Boil in lightly salted water. Once they float, cook 2–3 minutes more. Lift out gently.
- ➡Make the mango sauce: Blend mango, then stir in cream, honey, citrus juice, and salt. Warm gently without boiling.
- ➡Serve: Arrange dumplings, spoon over sauce, and garnish with mint or lime zest if desired.
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Another Musk from Africa that came before Elon: the true Healer from Zulu
Musk Bush - Iboza riparia, Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush - flowers
Musk Bush - Iboza riparia, Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush - flowers
Musk Bush - Iboza riparia, Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush - flowers
Musk Bush - Iboza riparia, Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush - leaves
🚀 Another Musk from Africa that came before Elon: the true Healer from Zulu.
🚀 Growing tips
🛒 Order Musk Bush - natural remedy for body and mind
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- 🚀 This African Musk has less hype and more goodness: it won't buy Twitter but it might cure your cough!
- 🚀 Musk Bush (Iboza riparia) - also called Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush, is a highly aromatic shrub with a long tradition of healing use in African herbal medicine. Its soft, velvety leaves release a sweet ginger-like scent when crushed and are packed with medicinal value.
- 🚀 Medicinal uses
- 💚 Respiratory relief: The Zulu people traditionally use Iboza as an inhalant for coughs, chest congestion, and even malaria. Crushed leaves are often inhaled or made into a steam bath to clear the lungs.
- 💚 Natural relaxant: Often used alongside Psychotria viridis for calming effects, this plant is prized for its gentle sedative properties.
- 💚 Headache and digestive aid: Inhaling the fragrance can ease headaches, and teas or infusions are used to soothe stomach aches.
- 🚀 Plant facts
- 💚 Growth: Fast-growing (up to 3 ft/year), up to 6 ft tall, with a full, bushy habit.
- 💚 Leaves: Bright green, heart-shaped, covered in sticky aromatic hairs.
- 💚 Flowers: showy mist-like white to lilac spikes hang in beautiful, fragrant dense clusters.
- 💚 Fragrance: Leaves are scented like ginger with a musky twist - especially fragrant after light pruning.
🚀 Growing tips
- 💚 Best in full sun or partial shade
- 💚 Likes rich, well-drained soil and regular summer water, drought tolerant once established.
- 💚 Prune hard after flowering to keep it compact and boost future blooms.
- 💚 Grows well in pots in cold climates.
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