A Garden Update - Papaya Time!

A Garden Update - Papaya Time!

Papayas seem to be the one plant that will thrive in my area. Lucky because I do love the fruit even though they take such a long time. But its a labour of love as they say. Today let's go have a look at some of the younger ones just getting started in life. Every plant has a story so let's have a closer look.

I dug a hole and threw some seeds in and look what came up! I'll transplant them to open space as some begin to look stronger than others. I put the stairs on top as the workers around here seem to love destroying plants.

There are some papaya seeds that started sprouting inside the fruit. Anxious to get on with it they are...

This plant was producing some quite nice fruits until the workers tried to kill it. Papayas are quite quirky plants. They can die so easily for no reason yet seem to love being reborn after being chopped. Its as if they say "Hey, I'll be the one that decides my fate, not you"

This rather big and lovely tree had lots of fruits and for some reason decided it had enough of life and started to die. I chopped it and let's see if it comes back or not.

This is a transplant which if it does well will be transplanted again. The garden area doesn't have full sun all the time so this pot can be moved around. Of course these days the sun is behind the clouds most of the time if not raining ;) At least I don't have to water the garden.

This is a transplant from the seed area. Looks to be doing well. When first transplanted the seedlings often times lose some leaves but produce more on the top.

I dug a shallow trench and threw in more papaya seeds from harvested and eaten (yummy!) fruits. A great feeling to grow from seeds from your own harvest. A feeling of real self sufficiency. That's a mango from the squirrels. They'll eat a few bites from the tree above and move on to the next. Quite wasteful. I'll have to have a word with them haha.