Date: 21 Aug 2025
💖 Featured Variety: Lolita Surinam Cherry
The Lolita is a special form of Surinam cherry. Fruits ripen nearly black, turning sweet and rich without the resinous bite of the common red type. The taste is often compared to a mix of grape and cherry with a tropical twist.
- Fruit Season: Mainly spring into early summer, often with a smaller second crop in fall
- Plant Size: Usually 6–8 ft in the ground, 4–5 ft in containers
- Container Friendly: Thrives in larger pots, stays compact with pruning
- Pollination: Self-fruiting — no partner tree needed
Health Benefits
- High vitamin C content for immunity and skin health
- Antioxidants that help reduce inflammation
- Fiber to support digestion
- A versatile kitchen fruit — eaten fresh, made into jams, sauces, or desserts
Date: 25 Aug 2025
Patience is bitter
🐈🐈🐈 Patience is bitter
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." - Moliere
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." - Aristotle
🐈📸 Mr B the cat is patiently waiting for the harvest at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden
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Date: 22 Sep 2025
Shana Tova!
Shana Tova! Today marks Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year 5786.
🍯 Shana Tova!
🍎Today marks Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year 5786.
🎉 Shana Tova u’Metuka to everyone celebrating! Wishing you a sweet and happy new year filled with health, joy, peace, and prosperity.
🛒 Explore our extended selection of fruit trees (beyond pomegranates) and bring prosperity to your garden
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Date: 22 Sep 2025
Ackee breakfast scramble: quick-n-fun exotic recipes
Ackee breakfast scramble
🍴 Ackee breakfast scramble: quick-n-fun exotic recipes
- 🔴Saute boiled Akee with onions, tomatoes, and Scotch Bonnet, Wiri Wiri or Biquinho pepper.
- 🔴A Jamaican classic that looks like scrambled eggs but tastes buttery and rich! 🍲
Ackee breakfast scramble recipes
Ingredients
- 2 cups boiled Ackee (Blighia sapida)
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 tomatoes, diced
- 1-2 hot peppers (Scotch Bonnet, Wiri Wiri, or Biquinho), sliced
- 1 tbsp oil or butter
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a skillet. Saute onion until soft.
- Add tomatoes and sliced hot peppers, cook for 2 minutes.
- Gently fold in the boiled ackee, stir carefully to avoid breaking it up.
- Season with salt, cook until heated through, then serve warm.
🛒 Grow your own Akee fruit (banned for import) and hot peppers
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Date: 17 Jun 2022
Mango trees: how to deal with cold weather
By Ed Jones, the Mango guy
...Well, you did it didn't you? You love fresh mangoes, don't you?
Wouldn't it be great to be able to pick your own mango fresh off a tree in
your back yard?
So you bought a mango tree hoping to do just that. You are in USDA growing
zone 10 or 11 aren't you? If so, you should have no problems with weather
extremes other than possibly an occasional frost in zone 10A. If you can cover
your tree, you will not likely see any damage. But what if you are a little
further north and you have decided to try your luck on the magnificent mango
fruit tree? Mangoes are a tropical fruit tree best grown in tropical zones with
temperatures that stay above 40F. If you are in zone 9A or 9B, you may still
have luck growing a mango tree...