This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Just like the banana, the papaya grows in what technically should be ...

Papaya fruit will not ripen properly once it gets cold. You can harvest the largest of the fruit and try ripening them indoors. Keep them at room temperature and see what happens. If they are far ...

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 ...

Happy Holidays from Miami-Dade County. Check out our Christmas tree. Down south in the Redland, fields of papaya trees are bearing fruit. We shot this picture yesterday on the side of Quail Roost ...

Big Island police are seeking clues to the destruction of 8,500 papaya trees, valued at more than $100,000, at a 17-acre farm in Kapoho this week. "They knew how to handle knives or machetes, and some ...

A Puna farmer now says he lost 13,000 papaya trees valued at more than $120,000 in the largest instance of agricultural vandalism in Big Island history. Two weeks ago Laureto Julian, 65, told Puna ...

HONOLULU – Thousands of papaya trees were chopped down on 10 acres of Big Island farmland under the cover of night last month. Hawaii County police said the destruction appeared to be done with a ...