Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 2 Oct 2025

Peanut butter fruit smoothie: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Peanut butter fruit smoothie

Peanut butter fruit smoothie

🍴 Peanut butter fruit smoothie: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

  • 🔴Peanut butter fruit (Bunchosia argentia) makes delicious shake!
  • 🔴Blend ripe peanut butter fruits with milk and honey.
  • 🔴A creamy shake that tastes like dessert straight from the tree!

Peanut Butter Fruit Smoothie

Ingredients

  • 1 cup ripe peanut butter fruit (Bunchosia argentea), seeded
  • 1 cup cold milk
  • 1–2 tablespoons honey
  • Ice cubes (optional)

Instructions

  1. Remove seeds from ripe peanut butter fruits.
  2. Blend fruits with milk and honey until smooth.
  3. Add ice cubes if desired for a chilled version.
  4. Serve immediately and enjoy a creamy shake that tastes like dessert straight from the tree!

🛒 Harvest Peanut Butter Fruit - the tree is fast fruiting!

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Date: 12 Sep 2025

Mulberry yogurt swirl: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes

Mulberry yogurt swirl

Mulberry yogurt swirl

🍴 Mulberry yogurt swirl: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes

  • 🔵Layer fresh mulberries with plain yogurt and a drizzle of honey.
  • 🔵The berries bleed into the yogurt, creating a natural tie-dye effect.

Mulberry Yogurt Swirl

Ingredients

  • 1 cup fresh mulberries
  • 1 cup plain yogurt
  • 1 tbsp honey

Instructions

  1. Layer fresh mulberries with plain yogurt in a glass.
  2. Drizzle with honey on top.
  3. Let the berries bleed into the yogurt, creating a natural tie-dye swirl.

🛒 Discover Mulberry varieties

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Date: 18 Oct 2025

Avocado leaf tea: island secret for a calm heart and blood pressure

Avocado leaf tea: island secret for a calm heart and blood pressure Avocado leaf tea: island secret for a calm heart and blood pressure

Avocado leaf tea: island secret for a calm heart and blood pressure


  • 🍃 You see that Avocado tree in your yard? Don't just love it for the fruit - the leaves carry magic too! Old folks in the tropics will tell you - never throw away the avocado leaves. They’ve been used for generations to brew a tea that helps steady the heart and ease high blood pressure.

  • 🍃 When life gets busy and your heart starts beating too fast, this tea helps it find its rhythm again. The leaf holds flavonoids and quercetin - fancy words for what nature been doing all along: keeping the blood flowing smooth and the body at peace. Folks say it also helps with digestion and keeps the liver happy.

  • 🍃 Avocado leaf tea

    Ingredients

    • 3 to 4 fresh avocado leaves
    • 2 cups water
    • Optional: honey, lemon, or cinnamon stick

    Instructions

    1. Rinse the avocado leaves well.
    2. Place them in a small pot with 2 cups of water.
    3. Bring to a gentle simmer and let it cook for about 10 minutes.
    4. Strain the tea and add honey, lemon, or cinnamon if desired.
    5. Sip slowly and enjoy the calm, earthy flavor.

  • 🍃 They say it helps the belly, calms the mind, and keeps the liver strong. Maybe that’s science, maybe it’s just island truth - but it surely does the body good! Some call it bush medicine, others just call it good sense. Either way, it’s a simple garden remedy that’s been soothing hearts long before pills and prescriptions came around.


🛒 Plant an Avocado tree and help your body stay healthy

📚 Learn more:


Tropical fruit and plants that help keep blood pressure in balance, Part 1, and Part 2.

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Date: 30 Dec 2022

Cold protection for tropical plants

greenhouse  and  cold  protection  covers  on  tropical  plants

Pushing the limits of tropical gardening

The year is almost over but the winter is not. This Christmas weekend at our Sebring B-farm we had it down to 30F. As a tropical gardener, winter can be challenging, especially if you grow plants outside of tropical zones.

greenhouse  with  tropical  plants

To protect your garden from the cold, consider the following:

1. Monitor freeze watches and be prepared to take action if necessary.
2. Create temporary structures like mini-greenhouses using PVC pipes, carport frames, or bamboo sticks to support covers.
3. Use covers such as frost cloth, cardboard boxes, blankets, and bed sheets.
4. Use Christmas lights and other heating elements, including propane heaters, to keep plants warm.
5. Add a layer of heavy mulch around plant trunks to protect them from the cold.
6. Apply plant boosters that improve cold hardiness, such as Sunshine Epi, Sunshine-Si, and Sunshine Superfood.

At TopTropicals B-Farm, we sprayed our plants with a special cold hardiness treatment Sunshine-Si and covered and wrapped everything we could. We also moved cold sensitive species inside greenhouses. All of our plants are looking great and happy!

Mulching  mango  trunks  and  using  Christmas  lights  for  cold  protection

Photo above: Mulching mango trunks and using Christmas lights for cold protection

Read more about this special treatment plan: Cold Hardiness Improvement Kit.

Covering  plants  during  cold  night

Plastic  warm  house  wrapping

Photo above: Temporary wrapping of a section of a greenhouse with a plastic or frost cloth protects from a windchill. It may also win you a few degrees even without a heater. In this particular case, according to our temp sensors, it was 30F outside, and 41F inside this "dome", no heaters used.


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Sunshine  boosters  for  different  plant  types

Date: 28 Sep 2016

Helping plants to survive winter:
SUNSHINE BOOSTERS - FROM SUNSHINE STATE

A magic plant hormone so wanted by gardeners, is finally here! When people purchase plants and trees either on-line, or from their local nursery, expectation and anticipation for their new find is high. Many times, however, disappointment is encountered due to a variety of reasons. These reasons include changes in light, temperature, water, soil conditions and transportation; just to name a few. So how can the stress on newly transported and transplanted plants be mitigated? Easy! There are plant stimulators able to reduce the shock encountered.

One such plant stimulator, produced at TT Laboratories is SUNSHINE, a revolutionary, broad spectrum, plant stress reliever. Extracted initially from plant pollen, SUNSHINE can bring back and keep the vigor to stressed plants in both the home and garden. Sunshine is indeed a plant stimulator on the cutting edge of plant care technology. Reasonably priced, and easy to use, SUNSHINE will be your plants' best friend, next to yourself, of course.

SUNSHINE will help your plants:
- recover from stress
- dramatically increase growth rate
- get profuse flowering and fruiting
- improve disease resistance, cold hardiness, and heat resistance
- promote seed germination and root cuttings easily

Great for indoor plants and improving cold tolerance!

Line of products:
SUNSHINE-E - general plant booster, growth stimulator and immune booster
SUNSHINE-BC - Bonsai and Caudex developer
SUNSHINE-S - seeds and cuttings pre-treatment
SUNSHINE-T - Thermo-protection for overwintering tropical plants
SUNSHINE-Micro - ultimate micro-element mix from TT Laboratories

On the photo: Tomato seedlings, with and without Sunshine-E treatment; 1 week after treatment, 09-01-2016. Continue reading...

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