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🍊 How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around

🟠 Many people include Papaya fruit in their daily diet because of its healing properties for digestive system. You can eat Papaya fresh as a tasty dessert, add to salads ripe or green, use fruit and leaf wraps in cooking - possibilities are endless.

🟠 Buying papaya fruit from the store every day can become costly. So you can plant your own tree - Papayas are heavy producers. But like with many fruit trees, the question may arise:
❓ What to do with so many fruit at once, and where to get the fruit when it's out of season?

🟠 The answer is: plant several varieties. Different Papaya cultivars, similar to Mango and Avocado, have different crop seasons.

🟠 If you want to enjoy fresh delicious Papaya fruit year around, plant several Papaya varieties in your garden that have different ripening times.
For example:
Waimanalo - ripens from July to October and sporadically throughout the year.
Sunrise - ripens from January through September and sporadically throughout the year.
Maradol - ripens from August through March and sporadically throughout the year.

🟠 Papaya tree doesn't take any room in your garden: similar to a palm tree, all its leaves/crown is up high, so you can plant as many trees as you want in a very limited space and still use the room under Papaya tree for other plants.

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📚 Learn more from previous posts:
The secret facts of Papaya's private life
Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties

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🍊 The truth about Papaya:
1) it is grass, and
2) it can go transgender!
The secret facts of Papaya's private life.

📌 Did you know that Papaya technically is not a tree? It is a large herbaceous plant, usually with a single, straight trunk that can reach 30 feet!

📌 Many dwarf varieties available in selection, reaching only 6-8 ft tall, but producing large crops of full size fruit - they are easy to harvest.

📌 Papaya trees have very complex gender mechanism, but the bottom line is - the tree can chance its sex based on conditions! Many varieties are self-fertile, but it always recommended to plant a few trees for cross-pollination and better yield.

📌 The sweetest Papaya is from so called "Solo" cultivars: the fruit is usually round or oval, on a smaller side, but super sweet.

📌 Fruit from Solo cultivars are not susceptible to fruit flies.

📌 Being officially a tropical plant, Papaya is pretty cold resistant and can withstand light freeze without significant damage.

📌 Surprisingly, Papayas are also hurricane-resistant plants and can take strong winds without damage. They still stand when other trees are down!

📌 Papaya is one of the Super-Foods thanks to papain - a natural enzyme containing in this fruit. Papaya fruit offers the best digestive aid! Eat some papaya after each meal to maintain healthy digestion.

📌 Try papaya leaf wraps for cooking meats - you won't need a meat tenderizer!

📌 Easy to grow trees, Papayas don't take any space in the garden, but bring so much goodness into your life!

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🍊 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#6. Papaya (Carica papaya)

Papaya is probably the fastest fruiting tree that can start production the same year from planting a seed. Many dwarf varieties available in selection, reaching only 6-8 ft tall, but producing large crops of full size fruit - they are easy to harvest. Plant 2-3 Papaya trees of different cultivars that fruit at different times of the year and enjoy heavy crops of healthy fruit year around! Another benefit - this tree doesn't take much space in the garden, you can plant as many as you want.

📚 Learn more from previous post:

💋 How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
💋Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties
💋The secret facts of Papaya's private life
💋Papaya-Citrus Marinade
💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

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🌷 Did you know that Tea has Camellia flowers?

🍃 Camellia sinensis - the Tea Leaf Tree - is used to make all true teas: green, black, white, and oolong.

🌱 Tea facts:

· Tea is the world’s second most consumed drink, after water.
· Green tea is packed with antioxidants that protect your cells.
· Drinking tea boosts immunity, fights infections, and promotes oral health.
· Regular tea drinking supports bone health, aids weight loss, and lowers heart disease risk.
· Tea contains caffeine for focus and L-theanine to reduce stress.

🍃 The plant grows slowly and can thrive in containers or frost-free gardens with sun to semi-shade.

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How to grow your own tea?
Where does the tea come from?

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