Hello friends, hope your week is going on smoothly. Today, I'll like to share a little with you about a crop from my garden: papaya
I am sure that many of us are very conversant with this great fruit crop called Papaya,(also known as pawpaw), but I write for the sake of those who don't know it well. It's a very delicious fruit that is good for your health. It is rich in many vitamins and you may also like to take it as a dessert.
This is Maradona F1, a dwarf variety of pawpaw, which I raised from seed. The seeds were sown early July 2020. It takes about 7 months to mature, but due to dryness of the environment towards the end of the year,fruiting was delayed until the rains of 2021 fully arrived. Ever since then, my crops have been doing great!
Maradona F1 is known in many parts of the world for its longer shelf life and resistance to many fungal diseases of pawpaw. It's also high yielding and very sweet.
Fresh from the oven...this is one of the many ripe fruits that I have harvested from my garden recently. It's a kind of joy to be able to raise your foods by yourself, as that will ensure that you are not eating chemicals, used on crops as herbicides and insecticides.
And now, do I need to tell you the destination of these "gentlemen" in the plate? I suppose you already know that they are heading to somewhere good, and I wish they can reach you as well, my friends, but distance won't let them.
So I think it will be a good idea if you also can add this amazing fruit to your garden, probably in the coming cropping season. It certainly will do more good than harm. Do have a great weekend.
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Hello @christiana-j! Papayas are very easy to grow indeed. Its one of my favorite fruit too. Did you just plant this at your home or do you have a farm?
I only have a few trees for now,hoping to do more next season.thanks
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Your papaya make my mouth watering! I think the fruit its so sweet :D
Thankyou for sharing :)
I wish I have that kind of Papaya, mine is so tall, that it even surpassed the roof of our house which makes it hard to harvest them.
Maradona F1 is already in many parts of the world. You can ask from any seed company around you, and if you can't get this exact cultivar, any other dwarf variety will do well. Thanks for commenting.
Thank you very much for the information, I'll keep that in mind.
I wish I liked papaya - i love so many fruits but I just can't bear it. I know it's so good for you. Did you know you can use the seeds for UTI?