Hello #Gardenhive community! What a pleasure it is to greet you and to participate in this new June Garden Journal Challenge . In this installment I'm going to tell you about the lechoza bush, also known as papaya, in my garden.
I tell you that when I saw that this little plant was born, I thought that it was not going to prosper, because there is an overpopulation in my garden, there I have something very crazy, as I only have a little piece of land, 2 meters by 2 meters, there are several plants, I have guava, custard apple, soursop, 3 lemon bushes, and a fern that serves as a fence, along with a citronella plant.
But this time I want to talk about my papaya plant, this is a plant that produces a delicious tropical fruit, very nutritious and cures various diseases and is an adjuvant of the immune system, as well as the leaves of the papaya have medicinal properties. This is a plant that grows and in a period of time of 10 to 12 months begins to produce fruits. The lechosa plant has the ability to have very few pests.
Its cultivation is easy, but in my case was born by pure chance, she is the result of organic waste from my kitchen, go to the garden and there went several seeds of lechosa or papaya and took hold.
When the papaya plant was born, which was originally born without being foreseen, I saw that it was in a bad place, just behind the water tank and there it was touching everything, besides the heat of the air conditioner reaches it, so it prospered.
Now I see that the little plant has curved, to eliminate the friction with the tank, which rather strengthened with the water that falls from it and in turn dodge the hot air that reaches it.
It is a thrill, it has grown so strong that it has sprouted spectacular flowers and germinates very quickly, they are a blessing. The flowers are very pretty, they are cream colored, with greenish tones and well formed pistils, and it also has a lot of small leaves in formation.
The plant is well loaded with fruits, which, although not mature, are quite large. I really thought it was not going to progress, but it overcame and thrived.
Well, as God is great and wise, nature took care of putting the plant with a good capacity of adaptation and at this moment it is healthy and loaded with fruits of good size and shape, which I hope to enjoy them soon.
Although green papaya is also highly prized fruit, as it is used to make canned papaya, even what we know as candied fruit, highly prized in baking, are made with green papaya, but its greatest consumption is as natural fruit, unprocessed and is a delicacy.
I hope you enjoyed my publication and thank you very much for visiting me and it is very exciting to receive your comments, I will appreciate them. Much love!
📸 photograph taken by @damelysh, Samsung A13
📓 translation by Traductor de DeepL