I almost forgot i have some fruit trees am breeding, unlike the vegetables that are very susceptible to different attacks either from insects or all forms of diseases, but for the fruits trees most are rugged and can withstand any weather or any pests attacks.
Recently I've been mostly keeping up my veggies seedbed and nursery and I've been posting constantly about them, but now it seems its about time i find a way to balance between all my fruit trees and my veggies.
Pawpaw tree
In my fruit gardens i have lemon tree, pawpaw,sour sop,guava and mango trees.
The choice of the trees i grow in the garden are based on my likeness for them. These fruits are some i like most.
This is the sour sop tree, for example is my mum's best fruit, couple of times she'd goto store just to buy, infact she cant stopped buying, so i felt instead of her buying why can't i just plant in my own garden just for her.
Guava tree
Apart from my likeness for some of these fruits, another thing is their medicinal properties. I don't just keep trees or eat leafy plants if not for what i stand to gain, as much as it is so sweet to eat guava fruit, its leaves are medicinal and used to prepared herbal concoctions to cure certain diseases.
Mango tree.
The red leaves show the new mango leaf just coming out, this is normally so before turning to green.
Lemon tree;
In its natural state, the lemon may have a sour taste, but damn it is highly nutritious, from its leafs,to the roots and stem to its fruits they are very useful, good source of vitamin C.
This the pawpaw tree also known as 'papaya'. I was rather shocked to notice that this particular pawpaw tree doesn't bear fruits but rather it only grows flowers.
And thats why there are two different pawpaw trees, one that bear fruits and the other that bears only flowers and no fruits, and here they are often referred to as male and female pawpaw trees. But whatever one is having in the garden, they are both useful, pawpaw leafs offers so many herbal solutions. Like malaria, typhoid fever and so on.
I think one discouraging factor of growing fruit trees us that they usually take time to produce fruits, while people are eager to eat from them rather you'd wait for a year or more before they start bearing fruits.
