Papaya - happiness guaranteed when grown at home.

 Hi Everyone --

Hope you are doing OK and staying safe. Covid second wave did hit many people in India. Thanks to everyone, who helped others. Take care of yourself, family, friends and colleagues.

In this blog, I am going to share about "growing papaya at home" and the happiness it gives. You would feel the happiness when it yields. You would be even more happy, when you share the fruits with your family members,  neighbours or relatives.

It is a great short term crop, if you are a farmer. It gives output within a year for sure.  I have shared my papaya growing experience in my earlier blog. https://blog.prabakarpaulsami.com/2020/05/what-is-winning-attitude.html

A well known fact about this fruit:  A cup of papaya when had on an empty stomach is known to clear the digestive tract of toxins and smoothen the bowel movement due to the presence of digestive enzymes. It is also known to keep away digestive disorders like bloating, upset stomach and constipation. 

It is a rich source of Vitamin A and C. It helps to keep cholesterol in check and boosts the immune system by removing toxins from the body. 

 

Coming to the blog.... In India, have you ever noticed in your childhood days (.i.e. born around 1975s :)), every street or house used to have papaya trees. I have seen many in our area and people used to exchange the fruits within neighbour hood. Those days, papaya was always a free fruit, like water melon. :). People always exchanged this within their society.

So for a change and different experience, I did plant couple trees at my home as well.  Below pics are from my home tree. I wanted to experience growing this tree at home.   Again, it is just one year, we see the tree with full of fruits.  I planted this around last July-2020.

We did grow completely organic. All natural manure, watering process etc. Over a period, we felt like it is becoming a family member. Every day, you take care of the tree, sit there for sometime, water that, touch the papayas etc.  The more we spent there, it started giving more and more fruits. The fruits started growing bigger and bigger. We never expected this size. :)

Every day we used to calculate, it will ripe today, tomorrow, this week etc.  However, it happened one day. Happiness was guaranteed. Size of the fruit was so big and taste was amazing. One fruit can feed a small family for 2 days. :)

I have grown papayas at farm. When I saw the yielding, it was a different experience.  Care for people, go for natural etc. 

However, when we grew papaya at home, it was altogether different experience.  Tree became part of family member, brought happiness and emotions. We don't think of commercial, sales, etc. Just share the fruit with others when extra, and spread the happiness. :). If the society is happy, country will be happy and world by that. 

My Request:

Try growing a papaya at your backyard or wherever you have space at home. Happiness guaranteed. :)

Please give me a ring or whatzapp your experiences once you experience the same. 

OK everyone. Take care of yourself, family, friends and colleagues.

See you in the next blog...