Well, by golly! We might actually be getting a fruit to eat sometime this year. See that other papaya tree cowering in the back? I'm watching! If that one doesn't do something soon, I may have to swing my hatchet a few times around it to send it a little message.
Here's our "herb" garden that my brother designed and planted. We've got sage, mint, basil and even a couple of pineapple plants.
Art's cousin gave us some pineapples to eat so we ate the fruit and stuck the crown into the ground. I wonder how this will taste.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
What beautiful papayas! Congrats! We had to chop down our tree when a virus attacked the fruits.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't it say somewhere that "Good things come to all who wait"! yay!
ReplyDeleteReally?! You can just stick a pineapple crown in the ground and grow a tree? Cool!
You have a pretty and useful garden.
Very cool! I have seen pineapple crowns grown here as house plants. But to just stick them in the ground and have them grow fruit? Amazing!
ReplyDeleteHow exotic, papaya and pineapple. A pineapple crown would 'grow' here, but I don't think it would ever develop a pineapple. The slugs have eaten all my basil - do you get slugs in Hawaii?
ReplyDeleteOh yes, most certainly, we do get slugs.
ReplyDeleteActually, to be honest, my mom stuck the pineapple crown into a pot first until it grew roots, then Art transplanted it into the ground. I think the neighbors just stuck theirs into the ground though.
Virus? Virus? Nooooooooo!
KAY...Papayas look very healthy and pineapples look attractive...out here we use raw papaya(i mean when the fruit is not ripe) in many dishes.specially meats....as it tenderizes the meat....if pineapple from our kitchen garden turn out sour ..we make cooked chutney out of it.
ReplyDeleteyou have a nice garden .
Wow. I'd LOVE to be able to grow tropical fruit. You'll be enjoying these for sure.
ReplyDeleteWOW! The papaya tree is so short yet it has fruits! Funny thing that the papaya tree in my garden decided to bear fruit this year too. Just harvested two a few days ago.
ReplyDeleteOh wow... tropical fruit!! How cool is that! I'm so intrigued to see it on the shelves at the supermarket!
ReplyDeleteI think you may have come upon a new parental technique of raising obedient teens...lol! lovely garden with unusual fruits but not for hawaii. enjoy.
ReplyDeleteWow..your papaya is huge, you do have a green thumb.
ReplyDeleteNice contained area for your herb garden.
Let us know how the papaya taste. My mouth is watering !
The plant heard you. I know, most do not believe plants can actually hear but they can somehow hear and see or sense what is happening around them. So your threat (plants do not know what a lie is or means) was enough to stimulate growth. Don't believe it? It is true.
ReplyDeleteI have actually seen experiments done in labs under controlled conditions and see what happens when one plant in the room is torn from its pot. The other plant records lines like an earthquake has gone off somewhere.
Then, the man who did the destruction leaves the room and after a time comes back in and looks at the plant still in its pot and there is that same reaction on seeing or sensing the man in back in the room.
Just imagine the terror a tree feels when they know the chain saw is starting for them.
Once you know this then it brings a whole different dimension to how one takes care of living things. Or it had a profound affect on me.
gosh it's such a treat to see how papayas and pineapples really grow!
ReplyDeleteI love your garden! The papaya look grand, and the herbs and pineapple.
ReplyDeleteNow, don't go threatening that tree. You might scare it into NOT producing fruit.
Wow. You do have a green thumb. Your plants look so nice and green and the herb garden is so nice looking, I wished I had something like that. Oh to be able to have tropical fruit growing in my yard...
ReplyDeleteLOL...the tree did shape up didn't it? The garden looks great Kay...
ReplyDeleteOh I love it, love it, love it. I just love gardens. We had the same thing with a rose bush in our last house and The Hubby hacked it down with a hatchet. The next year it grew up again and we had people stopping by admiring our roses. Funny.
ReplyDeleteOh ... I do LOVE your header! Just lovely. Sometimes a threat is just what plants need to produce ;--)
ReplyDeleteHugs and blessings,