Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Outdoor landscaping
View Single Post
 
Old 08-04-2022, 02:26 PM
DAVES DAVES is offline
Sage
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 3,539
Thanks: 196
Thanked 1,920 Times in 984 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Smalley View Post
A landscaping project is also needed in our villa. Has anyone planted papaya trees? Did they produce good fruit? How much work are they? Thanks to fellow gardeners.
You want to look it up on the internet. I've not done it but it says zone 9-10. We are 9a, you will need something blocking the wind. The tree is 30 feet high-do you have room for it? It says you need to cover the fruit with paper bags to avoid animal damage. Teasing but not. Are you prepared to climb a 30 foot tree and put paper bags over fruit? In the photo the trunk looks like a palm not the kind of multibranched easy to climb tree.