Grow Fruit Indoors: 23 Exotic Fruits You Can Easily Grow at Home in a Garden or in Containers
By Tina May
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For most people, accessing tropical and exotic fruits can be quite a challenge, especially if you want them on a regular basis. Many stores and grocery outlets now stock the more exotic varieties, but often they are expensive or not the best quality. If you have ever been fortunate enough to travel overseas to exotic places like South East Asia, or Africa, or the Pacific, you will remember how fabulous the fruit tasted. Unusual flavors, textures, colors and fragrances, all bestow the exotic fruits. Many are quite strange looking too, and often you don’t know whether to try them or not, but once you do, you are in taste bud heaven. Fruits like papaya, sapodilla and sapote are quite unlike your typical grocery store fruit. Apples, oranges and pears just don’t quite stand up to the superiority of the exotics. Consuming a tropical fruit such as naranjilla can transport you back to where ever it was you first tried it. Most exotic fruit trees can be grown in gardens, but it can be difficult to maintain the required temperatures and humidity needed for them to fruit. Space can also be an issue, with many people living in smaller homes and apartments. So, how to solve this problem? Try growing your own exotic fruit in containers inside your home. It’s not terribly difficult, and imagine the fruit delights you could whip up for your friends and family!
Chapters in this book cover:
Australian finger lime, Kumquat and Buddha’s Hand
Barbados Cherry, Jaboticaba and Mulberry
Black Sapote, Guava and Sapodilla
Pomegranate, Figs and Passion Flower
Star Fruit, Miracle Fruit and Dragon Fruit
Naranjilla, Peanut Butter Fruit and Olive
Cocoa and Coffee
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Grow Fruit Indoors - Tina May
Introduction
So why do we love tropical or exotic fruit so much? Well, there could be many different answers to this question. Perhaps it reminds us of another place, another time. Maybe it’s just the uniqueness of some of the fruit, or just purely the magical tastes. Whatever the reason, the popularity of exotic fruit is jumped tremendously in recent times, as more people travel further abroad, and companies export more to other countries.
There is a vast array of exotic fruit scattered in all four corners of the world. Some of them aren’t too pretty, and some of them smell downright rotten. Durian fits both these categories. In fact, in hotels in South East Asia you are not even allowed to bring it into the hotel because of the stench. But apparently, the taste is absolutely heavenly. Just goes to show that it doesn’t matter what it looks like or what it smells like, there is something special about each and every tropical fruit.
Parents are encouraged strongly to increase fruit intake in their children’s diet. The same goes for adults too, as it’s just as important for grown ups to eat plenty of fruit. But, variety is the key, and after a while, many people get tired of eating the same fruit every day, so they start to look for something a bit different, something to excite the taste buds. Instead of sending your child to school with an apple, perhaps send them to school with a piece of papaya. Imagine what the other kids would think.
Unfortunately, depending on where you live, exotic fruit is not always easy to come across. Nowadays a lot of grocery stores are stocking these fascinating fruits from afar. But, how exactly do they keep them fresh when they are being transported over thousands of miles? Have you ever seen or heard of the process of ripening bananas once they have been imported? If you have, it will no doubt put you off.
Sometimes though there are no specific preservation methods used to keep the fruit fresh, so it spoils very quickly. How many times have you purchased a pineapple and within 24 hours it’s gone bad? And when you consider the cost of purchasing exotic fruit, the fact that it goes bad so fast is even more frustrating. Fruit being imported from certain countries is also treated with pesticides to prevent the spread of insects and disease. This is sounding even less