I almost forgot i have some fruit trees am breeding, unlike the vegetables that are very susceptible to different attacks either from insects or all forms of diseases, but for the fruits trees most are rugged and can withstand any weather or any pests attacks.
Recently I've been mostly keeping up my veggies seedbed and nursery and I've been posting constantly about them, but now it seems its about time i find a way to balance between all my fruit trees and my veggies.
Pawpaw tree
So today is for the fruit trees, am learning to keep a journal for my garden thou, so at time intervals i can always check on them.
In my fruit gardens i have lemon tree, pawpaw,sour sop,guava and mango trees.
The choice of the trees i grow in the garden are based on my likeness for them. These fruits are some i like most.
This is the sour sop tree, for example is my mum's best fruit, couple of times she'd goto store just to buy, infact she cant stopped buying, so i felt instead of her buying why can't i just plant in my own garden just for her.
Guava tree
Apart from my likeness for some of these fruits, another thing is their medicinal properties. I don't just keep trees or eat leafy plants if not for what i stand to gain, as much as it is so sweet to eat guava fruit, its leaves are medicinal and used to prepared herbal concoctions to cure certain diseases.
Mango tree.
The red leaves show the new mango leaf just coming out, this is normally so before turning to green.
Lemon tree;
In its natural state, the lemon may have a sour taste, but damn it is highly nutritious, from its leafs,to the roots and stem to its fruits they are very useful, good source of vitamin C.
This the pawpaw tree also known as 'papaya'. I was rather shocked to notice that this particular pawpaw tree doesn't bear fruits but rather it only grows flowers.
And thats why there are two different pawpaw trees, one that bear fruits and the other that bears only flowers and no fruits, and here they are often referred to as male and female pawpaw trees. But whatever one is having in the garden, they are both useful, pawpaw leafs offers so many herbal solutions. Like malaria, typhoid fever and so on.
I think one discouraging factor of growing fruit trees us that they usually take time to produce fruits, while people are eager to eat from them rather you'd wait for a year or more before they start bearing fruits.
- And thanks to the creator of #gardenjournal. I will see you at the other end of the garden.🤩
te felicito @olaunlimited por tus arboles, se ven saludables que bueno,aquí en el otro extremo del jardín (Venezuela) a mi me encanta la guanabana,tengo una sembrada, pero todavía no da fruto, y como estoy empezando apenas estoy haciendo los semilleros tengo de lechosa o papaya, auyama o calabaza ají, tomate y otros más. ahí voy poco a poco. Que tengas Éxito con tu diario del Jardín
Thanks dear, for your kind words, goodluck to you too in your garden,..looking forward to seeing your garden too
thanks for sharing. I enjoy tropical plants! It's been a long time since I've seen soursop and papaya. in the U.S we call a different small tree PawPaw, it has a fruit similar to a Mango and likes to grow by the water in the wild.
Oh yea,i'd like to see that small pawpaw tree, pls kindly share with me
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It's hard to be patient with fruit trees isn't it? But when they bare fruit you're sure thankful that you planted them. I can't grow papaya here, but I don't like it - I do have lemons though! I've never tried soursop! I'll have to see if I can find one at the market. Thanks so much for sharing!
That's very interesting, I've never seen such trees, as they are not native where I live. I would love to have a Mango tree, I love that fruit!
In its natural state, the lemon may have a sour taste, but damn it is highly nutritious, from its leafs,to the roots and stem to its fruits they are very useful, good source of vitamin C.
So we could also eat the roots and leaves from the Lemon tree? I didn't know that, very interesting!
Lovely to see your fruit trees! I'm sure your mother will be very excited not to have to purchase her favorite if you can grow it right in the garden! I love mango and guava, as well. Though it's not quite warm enough to grow them here. We do have our first fig tree growing, but it does take patience waiting for those first fruits!
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