🥒 Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯
🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.
🎥 10 Plants That Will Make You Happy. Plant #2: Candle Tree.
🛒Get your own Candle Tree
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🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.
🎥 10 Plants That Will Make You Happy. Plant #2: Candle Tree.
🛒Get your own Candle Tree
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🍈 How to always have lots of Guava Juice.
🧡 Psidium littorale, also known as Cattley Guava, is a charming small tropical fruit tree.
🧡 Round fruits offer a unique culinary experience with a sweet and tangy flavor, perfect for various dishes and drinks.
🧡 Surprisingly cold-hardy, it adds both beauty and flavor to any landscape.
🧡 Ideal for containers
🧡 A must-have for fruit lovers seeking a tropical treat.
🧡 One tree can bring enough fruit for making a delicious, aromatic, refreshing Guava juice for the whole family during Summer months. Just put the fruit in a blender, add some water, ice and sugar and enjoy!🥤
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🧡 Psidium littorale, also known as Cattley Guava, is a charming small tropical fruit tree.
🧡 Round fruits offer a unique culinary experience with a sweet and tangy flavor, perfect for various dishes and drinks.
🧡 Surprisingly cold-hardy, it adds both beauty and flavor to any landscape.
🧡 Ideal for containers
🧡 A must-have for fruit lovers seeking a tropical treat.
🧡 One tree can bring enough fruit for making a delicious, aromatic, refreshing Guava juice for the whole family during Summer months. Just put the fruit in a blender, add some water, ice and sugar and enjoy!🥤
🛒Order Cattley Guava and never run out of juice
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🌺 Did you know that you can eat and drink Hibiscus plants?
Who doesn't adore hibiscus flowers? But guess what? Some hibiscus species are not only gorgeous but also surprisingly practical. They can jazz up your garden and your dinner plate!
🥗 Hibiscus cannabinus - Salad Hibiscus - flowers and leaves used in tasty healthy salads and teas.
🧉 Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica, Karkade Sorrel, Roselle - flowers and used for famous beverage "Agua de Flor de Jamaica" and Karkade Tea.
🫐 Hibiscus acetosella - Cranberry hibiscus - cranberry-colored flowers and leaves are also tasty and healthy in salads and teas.
Grow your edible flower landscape in no time!
📚 Learn more, with recipes: Most useful Hibiscus plants
🎥 YouTube video: Jamaican Hibiscus Tea: what's in it?
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Who doesn't adore hibiscus flowers? But guess what? Some hibiscus species are not only gorgeous but also surprisingly practical. They can jazz up your garden and your dinner plate!
🥗 Hibiscus cannabinus - Salad Hibiscus - flowers and leaves used in tasty healthy salads and teas.
🧉 Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica, Karkade Sorrel, Roselle - flowers and used for famous beverage "Agua de Flor de Jamaica" and Karkade Tea.
🫐 Hibiscus acetosella - Cranberry hibiscus - cranberry-colored flowers and leaves are also tasty and healthy in salads and teas.
Grow your edible flower landscape in no time!
📚 Learn more, with recipes: Most useful Hibiscus plants
🎥 YouTube video: Jamaican Hibiscus Tea: what's in it?
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🦋 #Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.
🪴 #Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.
🧯 #Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.
🥭 #Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.
📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.
🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.
♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?
🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.
👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...
🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).
🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.
✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.
🥗 #Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.
💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.
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🌼 #Trees - Spectacular flowering tropical trees.
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🦋 #Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.
🪴 #Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.
🧯 #Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.
🥭 #Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.
📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.
🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.
♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?
🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.
👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...
🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).
🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.
✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.
🥗 #Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.
💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.
☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.
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🍒 What can be better than a Cherry? Cherry juice!
🍷 We discovered that Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra) we introduced earlier makes an excellent fresh-squeezed juice!
🍷 Barbados Cherry is a vigorous grower that starts producing right away, and by the second year you have so much fruit that you don't know what to do with it - you can eat only so much fruit out of hand!
🍷 Here is our Top Tropicals Signature Recipe -
🍒🥤Barbados Cherry Juice:
1. Collect berries and rinse them with cold water
2. In a bowl, press the fruit with a potato musher, spoon or cup, and drain the fresh juice into a cup - put the juice aside.
3. Add a few spoons of sugar to the mush (optional), push-mush some more to extract more juice.
4. Add to the remaining mushed pulp some hot boiled water, stir, and let sit for a couple of hours.
5. Drain the liquid through a colander (you may add a little extra water in the process of extracting more tasty pulp out) and add to the fresh juice you made earlier. 6. Refrigerate for an hour, then serve in a clear glass to enjoy the color.
🎀 The Barbados Cherry juice made this way tastes very similar to Guava juice. It is very aromatic and tasty, and has a beautiful Baby-pink color!
❤️ Enjoy and stay healthy!
🍊 Remember Barbados Cherry fruit contains 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange!
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🍷 We discovered that Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra) we introduced earlier makes an excellent fresh-squeezed juice!
🍷 Barbados Cherry is a vigorous grower that starts producing right away, and by the second year you have so much fruit that you don't know what to do with it - you can eat only so much fruit out of hand!
🍷 Here is our Top Tropicals Signature Recipe -
🍒🥤Barbados Cherry Juice:
1. Collect berries and rinse them with cold water
2. In a bowl, press the fruit with a potato musher, spoon or cup, and drain the fresh juice into a cup - put the juice aside.
3. Add a few spoons of sugar to the mush (optional), push-mush some more to extract more juice.
4. Add to the remaining mushed pulp some hot boiled water, stir, and let sit for a couple of hours.
5. Drain the liquid through a colander (you may add a little extra water in the process of extracting more tasty pulp out) and add to the fresh juice you made earlier. 6. Refrigerate for an hour, then serve in a clear glass to enjoy the color.
🎀 The Barbados Cherry juice made this way tastes very similar to Guava juice. It is very aromatic and tasty, and has a beautiful Baby-pink color!
❤️ Enjoy and stay healthy!
🍊 Remember Barbados Cherry fruit contains 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange!
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🫢 Shocking content: flowers with lady's parts used for making tea...
Now that you've met the Sausage Tree, it's time to introduce you to Clitoria...
💙 Clitoria ternatea - also called Butterfly Pea, has distinctive, delicate blooms resembling certain anatomical features... These curious flowers have the shape ofclitoris - hence the name of the plant.
💙 Nature's Wink: the Clitoria vine boasts these beautiful sexy flowers in vibrant shades of blue, white, or purple. They’re an absolute showstopper!
💙 Herbal Benefits: beyond its looks, the clitoria flower is known for its traditional uses as a herbal tea, including stress relief and cognitive support. The flowers also used in salads. The plant is both pretty and practical!
💙 Blue Tea is a caffeine-free herbal tea, or Tisane - a beverage made from a decoction or infusion of the Clitoria flower. This stunning blue tea changes color with a squeeze of lemon 🍋 - science and beauty in your cup!⛾
💙 In Thailand and Vietnam the Blue Tea is mixed with honey and lemon for a drink served after dinner, or as a refreshment at hotels and spas; a preparation called Nam Dok Anchan in Thai.
💙 Pollinator's Paradise: Bees, butterflies, and other pollinators can't resist Clitoria's allure 🦋🐝
💙 Easy to grow: Clitoria vine is a gardener’s dream. It is very delicate, fine vine that is both fast growing and easy to control. It can cover a small fence, trellis in a few months. It is also great for containers - this vine will grow just the way you want it.
📚 Learn more about Clitoria and its Tea Infusion
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Now that you've met the Sausage Tree, it's time to introduce you to Clitoria...
💙 Clitoria ternatea - also called Butterfly Pea, has distinctive, delicate blooms resembling certain anatomical features... These curious flowers have the shape of
💙 Nature's Wink: the Clitoria vine boasts these beautiful sexy flowers in vibrant shades of blue, white, or purple. They’re an absolute showstopper!
💙 Herbal Benefits: beyond its looks, the clitoria flower is known for its traditional uses as a herbal tea, including stress relief and cognitive support. The flowers also used in salads. The plant is both pretty and practical!
💙 Blue Tea is a caffeine-free herbal tea, or Tisane - a beverage made from a decoction or infusion of the Clitoria flower. This stunning blue tea changes color with a squeeze of lemon 🍋 - science and beauty in your cup!⛾
💙 In Thailand and Vietnam the Blue Tea is mixed with honey and lemon for a drink served after dinner, or as a refreshment at hotels and spas; a preparation called Nam Dok Anchan in Thai.
💙 Pollinator's Paradise: Bees, butterflies, and other pollinators can't resist Clitoria's allure 🦋🐝
💙 Easy to grow: Clitoria vine is a gardener’s dream. It is very delicate, fine vine that is both fast growing and easy to control. It can cover a small fence, trellis in a few months. It is also great for containers - this vine will grow just the way you want it.
📚 Learn more about Clitoria and its Tea Infusion
🛒 Get your own Clitoria Vine for fun and Blue Tea
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☕️ Where does the tea come from? Tea Leaf Plant!
🍃 Camellia sinensis - Tea Leaf. Yes, tea comes from a camellia!
🍃 Tea Leaf is a small evergreen tree, usually pruned back to shrubs in cultivation.
🍃 In the fall and winter, the plant will produce small white flowers with a lovely fragrance.
🍃 Tea is the second most commonly drank liquid on earth after water. It has numerous medicinal benefits mainly due to its antibacterial and antioxidant properties.
🍃 To grow Tea Leaf Plant, make sure to pick an area of your landscape where it does not flood or remain wet during our rainy season. Camellia sinensis do not like wet feet at all. They prefer well-drained, sandy and slightly acidic soil.
📚 Learn more: Tea Leaf Plant and Tea Harvesting Recipes
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🍃 Camellia sinensis - Tea Leaf. Yes, tea comes from a camellia!
🍃 Tea Leaf is a small evergreen tree, usually pruned back to shrubs in cultivation.
🍃 In the fall and winter, the plant will produce small white flowers with a lovely fragrance.
🍃 Tea is the second most commonly drank liquid on earth after water. It has numerous medicinal benefits mainly due to its antibacterial and antioxidant properties.
🍃 To grow Tea Leaf Plant, make sure to pick an area of your landscape where it does not flood or remain wet during our rainy season. Camellia sinensis do not like wet feet at all. They prefer well-drained, sandy and slightly acidic soil.
📚 Learn more: Tea Leaf Plant and Tea Harvesting Recipes
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🥑 Healthy breakfast, lunch or snack: Avocado toast
Avocado toast is creamy, crisp and so satisfying. It’s a delicious and simple breakfast, snack or light meal!
🥪 Ingredients (makes 1 toast):
◾️ 1 slice of bread (thick-sliced whole-grain or rye bread is the best)
◾️ ½ ripe avocado
◾️ Pinch of salt and black pepper
📝 Instructions
◾️ Toast your slice of bread until golden and firm.
◾️ Remove the pit from your avocado. Use a big spoon to scoop out the flesh.
◾️ Spread avocado on top of your toast.
◾️ Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper.
🍿 Enjoy!
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Avocado toast is creamy, crisp and so satisfying. It’s a delicious and simple breakfast, snack or light meal!
🥪 Ingredients (makes 1 toast):
◾️ 1 slice of bread (thick-sliced whole-grain or rye bread is the best)
◾️ ½ ripe avocado
◾️ Pinch of salt and black pepper
📝 Instructions
◾️ Toast your slice of bread until golden and firm.
◾️ Remove the pit from your avocado. Use a big spoon to scoop out the flesh.
◾️ Spread avocado on top of your toast.
◾️ Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper.
🛒 Grow your own Avocado and Pepper plants
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🍧 How to eat ice cream every day without feeling guilty
Mango season is here! If you own a big tree, this means - you probably need to eat a lot of fruit within a short period of time🥢
Here is a tip: make an ice cream!
You can eat this healthy Gelato ice cream every day without feeling guilty.
🍦All you need for mango Gelato:
🥭 Mango fruit
🧊 Ice
🌀 Blender
🥃 A shot of your favorite Rum
🍨 You're welcome. Enjoy!
🛒 Plant a Mango tree today to enjoy your Gelato tomorrow
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Mango season is here! If you own a big tree, this means - you probably need to eat a lot of fruit within a short period of time
Here is a tip: make an ice cream!
You can eat this healthy Gelato ice cream every day without feeling guilty.
🍦All you need for mango Gelato:
🥭 Mango fruit
🧊 Ice
🌀 Blender
🥃 A shot of your favorite Rum
🍨 You're welcome. Enjoy!
🛒 Plant a Mango tree today to enjoy your Gelato tomorrow
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🍾 What is the safest alcohol?
🍹"Rum and Tequila are the safest alcohol drinks", - says Addiction Specialist, - "But only when consumed in combination with fruit juice".
🍹Rum is considered the "safest" alcohol due to its content of zinc, potassium, and phosphorus, which result in a less aggressive impact on the liver. It should be mixed with fruit juice such as Mango or Orange (Check out our Mango Gelato Recipe)
🍹 Tequila, often consumed with salt and lemon, introduces sodium chloride and vitamin C into the body, which can help reduce hangovers.
📸 Mango Xoai Thuong (Elephant)
Citron 'Buddha's Hand' (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis)
Variagated Lemon "Pink Lemonade"
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🍹"Rum and Tequila are the safest alcohol drinks", - says Addiction Specialist, - "But only when consumed in combination with fruit juice".
🍹Rum is considered the "safest" alcohol due to its content of zinc, potassium, and phosphorus, which result in a less aggressive impact on the liver. It should be mixed with fruit juice such as Mango or Orange (Check out our Mango Gelato Recipe)
🍹 Tequila, often consumed with salt and lemon, introduces sodium chloride and vitamin C into the body, which can help reduce hangovers.
📸 Mango Xoai Thuong (Elephant)
Citron 'Buddha's Hand' (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis)
Variagated Lemon "Pink Lemonade"
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🥗 How to make healthy food taste delicious? Longevity Spinach Super-food Recipes.
☘️ Gynura procubens (Longevity Spinach, Okinawa Spinach) is one of the Superfoods, known for its longevity-promoting properties in traditional medicine.
☘️ Native to Indonesia, commercially grown in China. It is a relatively hardy perennial that once planted, you will have these healthy greens for many years!
☘️ Both the stems and the leaves are edible and nutritious, can be eaten raw or cooked. They have a unique flavor with a faint hint of pine, and will add a beautiful aesthetic element to cuisine.
☘️ This green is also known as cholesterol spinach, and there are many claims that it lowers can cholesterol.
☘️ Perfect for hot and humid climates unlike traditional Spinach that only grown in cooler areas. It will thrive in any type of soil, any type of light other than dark shade, and is pest-free.
☘️ Very adaptable to container gardening and even grows well on a windowsill.
☘️ The leaves and young shoot tips can be steamed, used in stir fry, tempura, stews, and soups. Just add them at the very end.
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📚 Gynura: Longevity Spinach Superfood Recipes
🎥 Best Hot Weather Spinach Crops - Longevity and Okinawa Spinach
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☘️ Gynura procubens (Longevity Spinach, Okinawa Spinach) is one of the Superfoods, known for its longevity-promoting properties in traditional medicine.
☘️ Native to Indonesia, commercially grown in China. It is a relatively hardy perennial that once planted, you will have these healthy greens for many years!
☘️ Both the stems and the leaves are edible and nutritious, can be eaten raw or cooked. They have a unique flavor with a faint hint of pine, and will add a beautiful aesthetic element to cuisine.
☘️ This green is also known as cholesterol spinach, and there are many claims that it lowers can cholesterol.
☘️ Perfect for hot and humid climates unlike traditional Spinach that only grown in cooler areas. It will thrive in any type of soil, any type of light other than dark shade, and is pest-free.
☘️ Very adaptable to container gardening and even grows well on a windowsill.
☘️ The leaves and young shoot tips can be steamed, used in stir fry, tempura, stews, and soups. Just add them at the very end.
Check out the recipes
📚 Gynura: Longevity Spinach Superfood Recipes
🎥 Best Hot Weather Spinach Crops - Longevity and Okinawa Spinach
🛒 Plant Longevity Spinach and live long
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☕️ How to grow your own tea? Where does the tea come from? From Camellia!
🍃 Did you know that tea comes from a Camellia plant?
Camellia sinensis - Tea Leaf Tree - is the plant used to make all types of true tea: green, black, white, and oolong.
🍃Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, after water.
🍃Green tea is rich in antioxidants, which help protect your cells from damage.
🍃Drinking tea can boost your immune system, help fight off infections, improve oral health by reducing the growth of bacteria.
🍃Regular tea consumption is linked to improved bone health and reduced risk of osteoporosis. It can aid in weight loss by boosting metabolism and help reduce the risk of heart disease.
🍃Tea contains caffeine, which can improve mental alertness and focus. On the other hand, tea contains L-theanine, an amino acid that promotes relaxation and reduces stress.
🍃The plant is very slow growing, can be grown in container or in the ground in frost-free areas. Takes sun to semi-shade.
📚 Instructions how to make tea from tea leaves (PDF)
🛒 Plant your own Tea Tree
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🍃 Did you know that tea comes from a Camellia plant?
Camellia sinensis - Tea Leaf Tree - is the plant used to make all types of true tea: green, black, white, and oolong.
🍃Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, after water.
🍃Green tea is rich in antioxidants, which help protect your cells from damage.
🍃Drinking tea can boost your immune system, help fight off infections, improve oral health by reducing the growth of bacteria.
🍃Regular tea consumption is linked to improved bone health and reduced risk of osteoporosis. It can aid in weight loss by boosting metabolism and help reduce the risk of heart disease.
🍃Tea contains caffeine, which can improve mental alertness and focus. On the other hand, tea contains L-theanine, an amino acid that promotes relaxation and reduces stress.
🍃The plant is very slow growing, can be grown in container or in the ground in frost-free areas. Takes sun to semi-shade.
📚 Instructions how to make tea from tea leaves (PDF)
🛒 Plant your own Tea Tree
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🔻Piper sarmentosum - Vietnamese Pepper, Lalot: it is eaten raw in salads or cooked with other greens or dishes, or wrap meats and cook in oven or on stove or grill. It is used medicinally in India and SE Asia. The root is also chewed with Betel Nut as a tonic and medicine. The leaves are used as food (food wraps) in Vietnam.
🔻 Piper nigrum - Black Pepper: While black and white pepper were already known in antiquity, but green pepper (and even more, red pepper) is a recent invention. Pungent and aromatic. The pungency is strongest in white pepper and weakest in green pepper, while black and green pepper are more aromatic than the white one. Moderate growing vine that can be grown on a trellis. Prefers shade to semi-shade.
🔻 Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, False Kava-Kava: close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava) and probably has some similar tonic effects. It is used for its spicy aromatic scent and flavor, liken to root beer, or to anise-clove. Huge leaves can grow over a foot long. The leaves are used for flavoring, as wrappings for meats and tamales.
🔻 Piper betle - Betel leaf: very popular Indian spice with medicinal properties. Chewed with Betel Nut as a tonic and medicine. Great for wrapping food (similar to grape leaves).
🔻 Piper longum - Indian Long Pepper, Pippali, Bengal Pepper: edible and medicinal plant used as spice and in traditional Chinese medicine. Fruit used as a spice and seasoning. It has sweeter and less pungent taste than Black pepper. Highly valued medicinal plant used to treat respiratory infections, stomachache, bronchitis, cough, and much more.
Learn more:
📚 Vietnamese Pepper - Lalot food wraps BBQ recipe
🎥 Growing Lalot Pepper
🛒 Shop pepper plants: Pipers
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🍹 How to make tasty Carambola Banana Whip
✔️ 1 ripe Carambola
✔️ 3 ripe Bananas
✔️ 1 tbsp Honey
✔️ 1/2 tsp Cocoa (optional)
Blend ingredients until smooth. Scoop into frosted mugs. Garnish with Carambola and Banana slices.
🍷 Enjoy while cold ❄️
📚 From previous posts:
• Why Bananas? They are good for you and are fun to grow!
• How to grow your own Carambola
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✔️ 1 ripe Carambola
✔️ 3 ripe Bananas
✔️ 1 tbsp Honey
✔️ 1/2 tsp Cocoa (optional)
Blend ingredients until smooth. Scoop into frosted mugs. Garnish with Carambola and Banana slices.
📚 From previous posts:
• Why Bananas? They are good for you and are fun to grow!
• How to grow your own Carambola
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🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵
🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
🔴 Can be grown in container 🪴 with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!🪷
📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?
🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits
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🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
🔴 Can be grown in container 🪴 with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!🪷
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🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?
🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits
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🍲 How to make a zippy Papaya-Citrus Marinade
🍗 🍖 The Papaya enzyme papain makes this fruit especially suitable for tenderizing meat in marinades. Use this zippy marinade for beef or poultry.
✔️ 1 cup papaya puree
✔️ 1 tbsp lime zest
✔️ 1/3 cup grapefruit juice
✔️ 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
✔️ 1 tbsp honey
✔️ 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
✔️ 1 tbsp coarse black pepper
✔️ 1/2 tsp basil leaves
✔️ 2 tbsp olive oil
🍊 Combine and mix all ingredients except olive oil, then gradually mix in olive oil. Marinade meat for 2-8 hrs and cook over grill.
📚 From previous posts:
• How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
• Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties
• The truth about Papaya
🛒 Get your own Papaya tree
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🍗 🍖 The Papaya enzyme papain makes this fruit especially suitable for tenderizing meat in marinades. Use this zippy marinade for beef or poultry.
✔️ 1 cup papaya puree
✔️ 1 tbsp lime zest
✔️ 1/3 cup grapefruit juice
✔️ 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
✔️ 1 tbsp honey
✔️ 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
✔️ 1 tbsp coarse black pepper
✔️ 1/2 tsp basil leaves
✔️ 2 tbsp olive oil
🍊 Combine and mix all ingredients except olive oil, then gradually mix in olive oil. Marinade meat for 2-8 hrs and cook over grill.
📚 From previous posts:
• How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
• Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties
• The truth about Papaya
🛒 Get your own Papaya tree
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🍾 How to make exotic Passion Fruit Champagne Slush
🥂 Halve passion fruits crosswise and scoop out pulp with seeds into a bowl.
🥂 Sprinkle sugar over the pulp. Let sit at room temperature for an hour.
🥂 Stir in lime juice and boiling-hot water. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
🥂 Pour through a fine sieve, pressing on solids, then discard the seeds.
🥂 Freeze in ice cube tray.
🥂 Once frozen, add 1 cube per champagne flute, then slowly add the champagne.
🥝 Makes 6 cocktails:
✔️ 10 passion fruits
✔️ 1/2 cup sugar
✔️ 1 tbsp lime juice
✔️ 1/4 cup boiling hot water
✔️ 1 chilled bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine
📚 From previous posts:
• The truth about Passion flower and Passion fruit
🛒 Grow your own Passion fruit
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🥂 Halve passion fruits crosswise and scoop out pulp with seeds into a bowl.
🥂 Sprinkle sugar over the pulp. Let sit at room temperature for an hour.
🥂 Stir in lime juice and boiling-hot water. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
🥂 Pour through a fine sieve, pressing on solids, then discard the seeds.
🥂 Freeze in ice cube tray.
🥂 Once frozen, add 1 cube per champagne flute, then slowly add the champagne.
🥝 Makes 6 cocktails:
✔️ 10 passion fruits
✔️ 1/2 cup sugar
✔️ 1 tbsp lime juice
✔️ 1/4 cup boiling hot water
✔️ 1 chilled bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine
📚 From previous posts:
• The truth about Passion flower and Passion fruit
🛒 Grow your own Passion fruit
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🥑 Healthy breakfast, lunch or snack: Avocado sandwich
Avocado toast is creamy, crisp and so satisfying. It’s a delicious and simple breakfast, snack or light meal!
🥪 Ingredients (makes 1 toast):
◾️ 1 slice of bread (thick-sliced whole-grain or rye bread is the best)
◾️ ½ ripe avocado
◾️ Pinch of salt and black pepper
📝 Instructions:
• Toast your slice of bread until golden and firm.
• Remove the pit from your avocado. Use a big spoon to scoop out the flesh.
• Spread avocado on top of your toast.
• Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper.
🍿 Enjoy!
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Avocado toast is creamy, crisp and so satisfying. It’s a delicious and simple breakfast, snack or light meal!
🥪 Ingredients (makes 1 toast):
◾️ 1 slice of bread (thick-sliced whole-grain or rye bread is the best)
◾️ ½ ripe avocado
◾️ Pinch of salt and black pepper
📝 Instructions:
• Toast your slice of bread until golden and firm.
• Remove the pit from your avocado. Use a big spoon to scoop out the flesh.
• Spread avocado on top of your toast.
• Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper.
🛒 Grow your own Avocado
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