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How To Grow Papaya Fruit All Year Round
I love growing papaya. They are easy to grow (once you know how to!), they are quick to fruit and they fruit all year round. I can use them both ripe or green, I can feed them to my chickens and they attract lots of wild birds into my garden.

Papayas are fast growing shade trees and they look really good, too.

Growing papaya from seed is the easiest and most successful way to get started. Of course it's also the cheapest. You can grow papayas using seed from shop bought papayas.

However, the papaya can be a finicky plant... Papayas are easy to grow but not necessarily so easy to keep alive for long and to get good fruit from.

Below I tell you how you can easily grow papaya from seed and how you can ensure a good supply of fruit all year round.

Papaya trees are very, very hungry. That means they need very good soil, rich in organic matter and nutrients.

If you don't have fabulous soil, make some. Dig a hole half a meter across and fill it with a mix of good compost and soil. Actually, make at least two or three such planting beds in different locations.

Now sprinkle on some of your seeds. A couple of dozen per bed is a good amount. I usually use even more. Cover the seeds lightly with more compost and then mulch the patch well. The seeds usually take about a couple of weeks to germinate and may take longer.