Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 29 Aug 2025

Dont plant cherries until you see this one!

Cherry of the Rio Grande - Eugenia aggregata

🍒 Don't plant cherries until you see this one!

  • &🍒 Cherry of the Rio Grande (Eugenia aggregata) is one of those tropical fruits you don't forget once you taste it. The fruit looks like a dark ruby jewel and ripens to almost black, with a sweet, full cherry-like flavor.
  • &🍒 Unlike the temperate cherries, this one thrives in warm climates and starts flowering as early as March, keeping the harvest going well into summer.
  • &🍒 This little fruit tree that fits anywhere! It's slender, branching, fits neatly in limited spaces or even in a pot, yet still produces plenty of fruit.
  • &🍒 Can a tropical cherry really handle freezing temps? Once mature, Cherry of the Rio Grande can handle surprising cold snaps down into the 20s. A tough little tree that gives you a taste of the tropics right in your own backyard!
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Date: 28 Aug 2025

Wine is bottled poetry

Cash the Cat with a glass of wine

Cash the Cat with a glass of wine

🍷 Wine is bottled poetry



"Wine is bottled poetry."
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Date: 28 Aug 2025

Moringa vs spinach: which one wins for nutrition?

Moringa oleifera, Horseradish tree

🌳 Moringa vs spinach: which one wins for nutrition?

  • &✔️Moringa is sometimes called the Tree of Life, and for good reason. Almost every part is edible - leaves, pods, seeds, even the flowers. It isn't just a tree, it's like a whole pantry and medicine cabinet rolled into one.
  • &✔️ The leaves pack vitamins, minerals, and protein.
  • &✔️ The pods look like drumsticks and end up in curries.
  • &✔️ Even the seeds are handy - pressed for oil or used to clean water.
  • &✔️ And here's the bonus: it grows fast, covers itself in fragrant white flowers, and looks beautiful right in your garden.
  • &✔️ A tree that feeds you, heals you, and makes the yard smell good.
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Date: 28 Aug 2025

Avocado pineapple salsa: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes

Avocado pineapple salsa

Avocado pineapple salsa

🍴 Avocado pineapple salsa: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes

  • &🟢Dice avocado, pineapple, and red onion.
  • &🟢Toss with lime juice and cilantro.
  • &🟢Sweet, creamy, tangy, and perfect on fish or just with chips.
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🛒 For home-grown ingredients you will need:


Home grown Avocado
Home grown Pineapple

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Date: 27 Aug 2025

As happy as they make up their minds

Cat Bob is smiling

Cat Bob is smiling

😆 As happy as they make up their minds



"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln<
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