Hello Gardeners Lovers ....
Let's take a walk to the fruit garden to get rid of boredom due to busy daily routines. Yesterday, my friends and I went on a field trip to the guava palace which is located in Deli Serdang district, North Sumatra.
In the Guava Palace fruit garden there are many fruit trees, not only guava trees. But the water apples tree is the main garden of the Guava Palace.
Visitors are charged an entrance fee of 35 K rupiah to enjoy a short tour organized by the committee. First, visitors will be given a brief education about the various types of guava in the Guava Palace garden.The visitors who come mostly consist of school children, from an early age there is education for children from kindergarten to middle school to care about the surrounding environment.
After being given a brief education about the plants in the Jambu Palace garden, visitors were also taught how to grow vegetables. For today's agenda, the committee will teach how to plant kale. Children are given seeds in the form of kale seeds, then taught how to sow kale seeds.
After planting vegetables, the committee invites visitors to tour the garden. First, I was invited to the Srikaya fruit garden. It seemed like it wasn't the sugar apple season yet, so there weren't many sugar apple trees that were bearing fruit.
Next, go to the water apples fruit garden.
Seeing the red water apples, I couldn't wait to pick it, it definitely tastes sweet.
Each water apples tree is treated with the best care so that it produces water apples fruit that is fresh, sweet and without caterpillars.
How to care for water apples plants
1.Laying fruit fly traps
After the water apples tree flowers, maintenance is started, the first is by hanging a used plastic bottle on the branch of the water apple tree. This used bottle contains a chemical attractant and insecticide, this liquid will attract the attention of adult flies to enter the bottle.
2.Clean around the water apples tree
Cleanliness around the water apple tree needs to be carried out continuously, so that flies stay away from the water apple tree.
3.Wrapping the fruit
When the flowers have begun to fall and become fruit ovaries, wrapping is carried out. In this garden the fruit is wrapped in plastic, so it is safe from attacks by fruit flies and other predators.
4.Throw away the water apples that fall to the ground.
If there is a water apples that is rotten and falls to the ground, throw it away immediately, so that the flies don't have time to lay eggs and become larvae.
So that visitors don't get tired when walking around the garden, the management has made lots of resting places and also provided rubbish bins, so that visitors remain comfortable and the fruit garden is always clean.
After we were satisfied touring the fruit garden, we decided to look at the tilapia pond and feed the fish.
It was time to go home, when we came home, we were given sweet water It was time to go home, when we came home, we were given sweet water apples.
Thank you for joining my field trip to the guava palace.
Best Regards
@umirais
I enjoyed the virtual tour to this very productive garden. These two fruits you featured are common in my country. The green one we call "atis" and the water apple you called is "tambis" here! I'm amazed at how these fruits are cared in this garden. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for support and positif feedback @missjoycee
Here in our country, we call this fruit Makopa.
Thanks for you information @afterglow
You're welcome.