Papaya is a flavorful and fragrant fruit, and starting seeds is relatively easy. Provided the soil is warm and kept moist, the success rate for each seed germination is nearly 100 percent for most viable seeds. Wild Papaya – Carica cauliflora. Papaya from Central America. …
Growing bananas from seeds can be a long, laborious labor of love and constant care. Depending on the variety, banana seeds can take anywhere from a few months to a whole year. Here is variety specific germination info: Darjeeling Banana – Musa sikkimensis. Cold tolerant …
Apricots are stone fruits with a velvety smooth skin and low-juice, firm flesh. The name apricot is a name given to several species of fruit from different botanical names (common names are Japanese apricot or Chinese plum, Siberian apricot, marmot plum), but the Prunus armeniaca …
Cherries are really easy to preserve by freezing or drying. The question of pitting before or after freezing is a choice you’ll need to make, but I always pit before freezing which makes them super easy for the kids to use in their smoothies. …
Cherries are small, round fruit with a smooth skin. Sweet cherries, Prunus avium, are the fruit most associated with snacking and eating raw, and the sour cherries, Prunus cerasus, are tart, smaller than the sweet, and are often used in preserves. Maraschino cherries are actually light …
Rambutan gets its name from the Malaysian word ‘rambut’ meaning hair. It is native to the Malay-Indonesian region, and is grown in tropical areas worldwide. The rambutan is related to the lychee and longan fruits. This sweet tropical fruit is roundish or elliptical in shape with …
The lychee, Litchi chinensis, is a member of the soapberry family along with the rambutan and longan. It is the sole member of the Litchi genus. Lychee also goes by the names lichi, laichi, leechee, or vai. It is a sweet, juicy fruit with a …
The longan fruit comes from the Dimocarpus longan tree, and the fruit is known as ‘dragon eyes’ because of its round shape and translucent flesh, and the seed which resembles an eye. The tree originates from Mayanmar, southern China, southwest India, and the Indochinese peninsula. …
The exotic dragon fruit (pitahaya) also goes by the name ‘moonflower’, which gets its name from it nocturnal blooming nature. There are three different varieties of the sweet dragon fruit, each sporting a different colored fruit, and a sour dragon fruit. Each is refreshing to eat fresh …
Garden Update: Grapes One of our grape vines is in full production mode. Pretty happy about this, although it is right about that time the birds or squirrels get to them before we do. So far, they haven’t found our ‘secret grape stash’ among the …
Chill hours are the total number of hours below 45 degrees F that a plant is exposed to during their dormant period to produce properly developed fruit. Some deciduous fruit trees (fruit trees that loose their leaves seasonally) must go through a certain minimum number of chill hours to release their dormancy, go into bloom, and …