While planning for my container garden project, let me share to you my mom's fruit bearing plants. We have acquired a small property that we have not fully developed yet. So, my mom decided that she would plant some fruit bearing plants there and she did quite well.
This is the calamansi or calamandarin in English. She bought this as a grafted plant that is why thought only small, it's already bearing fruits. There are about 15 of this around the property, and she could harvest about 10 fruits each. The calamansi is a sour fruit much like lime or lemon. We use this for cooking, as a sour element for sauces and as a refreshing juice drink. It can be substituted for lemon when making iced tea and like other citrus fruits, is high in vitamin C. This fruit also has several medicinal uses. I rub the juice of the crushed calamansi to my daughters insect bites to relieve the itching and reduce the irritation. This can also be taken orally often in juice form as cough medicine, acne medicine even as a relief to constipation. I wonder if my mom consider all of these benefits before planting this fruit, because for a small fruit, it's quite a lot!
For me just the smell and the joy of seeing a small plant with so much fruit already gives me quite a joy!
Look at all those fruits! This is a papaya plant. We are used to seeing yellow or ripe papaya which is sweet and has soft flesh. These are not yet ripe but so nice to see. Ripe papaya can be eaten as is or mixed with other fruits on a salad. The green papaya can be used as chutney which is delicious to be paired with other dishes. We love making chutney at home because this can last for a long time in the fridge.
I just love taking pictures of these! I'm used to just seeing these on fruit stands and seeing it still in the tree is so lovely.
I hope that soon I can take some pictures of ripe papayas.
Just days before harvesting... I bet these papayas would be as sweet as the summer sun!
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4 comments:
Hi Krishna. Sorry for the late visit, its been a busy month in the garden and work and have not been able to keep up with blog writing and visiting. Your mother has plants that I would really like to have them grow in my garden too. Wow the papaya tree is very prolific!
wow..very good looking papayas, it bears so much fruit. i wonder how sweets it taste
@Malay-Kadazan girl: Thank you for the visit! Yes, she has quite a green thumb :) There are also, bananas (although still small), okra, lemon, sweet potatoes in her garden. I hope to have one too, but in my small space at home.
The papayas can't seem to stop bearing fruits! We gave some to our neighbors, the others were sold in the market and the rest for our family's consumption. If only all my blogger friends are our neighbors... :)
@mat jon: Thank you for visiting! Yes, my Mom's papayas are so sweet and can't seem to stop bearing fruits! I wish we were neighbors, we gave some of the fruits to ours because its too many for our consumption.
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