Pineapple guava thrives in Zambia’s climate, producing vibrant flowers and fruit across seasonal cycles, requiring specific care for optimal health.
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We are still harvesting two peach varieties, ensuring fruit quality with recycled potato sacks. Mulberry harvesting nears its end while training branches for easier access. Other berries will ripen soon. #LoveHomegrown.
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Summer highlights the rewards of winter orchard work, featuring diverse peach and nectarine harvest stages impacted by temperature variations. Extended harvests aid in cost-effective refrigeration during the ongoing power crisis. #LoveHomeGrown.
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September marks the end of dry conditions, allowing the harvest of the older, dry loofah gourds. In contrast, smaller winter-produced loofahs will be composted. #LoveHomeGrown.
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The tamarind pods gradually dry while on the tree, influencing their flavour and colour. They are gathered for diverse culinary applications, and their longevity can be prolonged through various preservation methods. #LoveHomeGrown.
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Spring and Summer Gardening in the Subtropics, This Week's Harvest
This month, we finish picking Hass avocados for the year. We handle the process carefully to avoid damage and ensure they ripen well. The avocados are stored indoors in cardboard boxes until ready, with warmer temperatures helping them ripen faster. #LoveHomeGrown.
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This post discusses harvesting Thai root crops, including ginger, galangal, white and yellow turmeric. It also guides the identification of these crops and their different culinary and medicinal uses. #LoveHomeGrown.
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The colder nights dried some yam vines, but warmer days sustained others. Careful harvesting and replanting in polybags will ensure a future crop. Harvested yams are eaten or stored as seeds. #LoveHomeGrown.
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Reduce watering sunchoke plants to prevent the rhizomes from rotting. Growing in polybags yields more and saves space with better drainage and less compaction. #LoveHomeGrown.
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Our region faced droughts, flash floods, and pests, impacting food production. Despite this, we are grateful for the citrus, pawpaw fruits, and vegetables we harvested. #LoveHomeGrown
The content discusses various ways to utilize green pawpaws, highlighting their health benefits, precautions for handling, and culinary uses. It emphasizes techniques for incorporating pawpaws in cooking, such as pickling in vinegar and preparing in groundnut sauce to prevent spoilage. Green pawpaws’ versatility is highlighted in home cooking and alternative medicine.
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This Week's Harvest, What is thriving this season?
Despite a drought affecting various plants, coffee plants at Subtropical Eden flourished, benefiting from warmer winter weather. Interestingly, the lack of rain caused coffee cherries to air dry on trees, facilitating an unorthodox Ethiopian drying method, producing rich, complex flavours. We now have enough coffee until the next expected harvest early next year.
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This Week's Harvest, What is thriving this season?