Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. Growing a papaya tree is a simple matter. If you plant papaya seeds now from store-bought fruit, you will probably see a crop within a year. Papaya ...

Move over banana trees. Papaya trees have arrived. Susan Thompson is the proud owner of more than 100 papaya trees, some almost eight-feet-tall, in her yard in Germantown. She didn’t intentionally ...

They worship the tree as the 'Tree of Life' and believe it to be the gift of God because of its many medicinal properties. It is rumoured that it was also Christopher Columbus' favourite fruit.The ...

Growing a papaya tree from seeds can be a very interesting task if you have a balcony where you can keep the plants. This is simply because papayas grow quickly and can be maintained well in pots. If ...

Papaya may not be the most favourite of all fruits, but there is no denying the numerous health benefiting properties that it possesses. So load up! Every morning, she hovered around her garden and ...

The tropical tree whose fruit packs a vitamin-rich punch has become the fifth flowering plant to reveal its genome. An international team of researchers has unveiled a draft of the catalog of genetic ...