What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood...

• Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - existed for more than 4800 year! It's been widely consumed in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Documented in India since 2,800 BC; reached Ancient Egypt around 2,200 BC.
• Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy food, with potential to become widely popular like Japanese sushi 🍱
• It is a showy perennial woody shrub or small tree, 4-8 ft tall, with soft leaves. Can be grown in container
• Pretty flowers are yellow, with purple or red streaks, pods containing oval to round seeds.
• Many culinary uses: the tasty and healthy beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable.
• Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc).
• Medicinal value: various folk medicinal uses for sores, bladderstones, jaundice, skin irritations, bronchitis, coughs, pneumonia, toothache, dysentery, and more.
• Everyone can grow it! The plant is super easy, tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans.

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🍇 How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?

In fact, they are very much alike! Just different species of Myrciaria that has somewhat smaller growth habit, which makes it an excellent container fruit tree! It also is much more productive.

• 🔵 Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator is a beautiful slow growing tree or shrub. It bears dark purple, almost bluish fruits, with thin, sweet flesh that taste somewhat like sweet grapes.
• 🔵 Fruits are borne in late Spring or early Fall and usually eaten fresh or used in drinks.
• 🔵 The plant is little known in cultivation, yet the fruits are of equal or superior quality to regular Jaboticaba that we mentioned earlier. A single bush may produce several thousand fruits!
• 🔵 Blue Jaboticaba can tolerate light frost when established.

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⬆️ Sunshine Boosters "Mango Tango" - all you need for a healthy Mango tree to produce lots of fruit for you!

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😘 Why do we love Papaya?

#Fun_Facts about Papaya:

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  💟 Not a tree: Papaya is technically a giant herb with a single, straight trunk that can grow up to 30 feet tall.
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  💟 Gender flexible: Papaya plants can change their gender based on environmental conditions. This complex mechanism ensures better adaptability.
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  💟 Cold and wind resistant: Papayas can withstand light freezes and strong winds, making them surprisingly hardy for a tropical plant.
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  💟 Solo cultivars: These smaller, round or oval papayas are incredibly sweet and less susceptible to fruit flies.

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When Peach trees are in full bloom

• 🍑 Our Peach trees are in full bloom now. Early Spring started in January this year in Florida!
• 🍑 You can grow peaches, nectarines, apricots and plums in Florida, provided you choose low-chill varieties. These have been developed specifically for subtropical regions like Central and South Florida, where traditional temperate varieties struggle due to insufficient chill hours.

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The most rewarding hardy fruit tree suitable for hot climate: peaches, nectarines, apricots and plums

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