The Most Bought Fruits in South Africa

The Most Bought Fruits in South Africa  

South Africa is a country blessed with diverse climates, enabling the production of a wide variety of fruits. From fresh local markets to major retailers, some fruits consistently dominate the shopping baskets of South Africans. Here’s a look at the most popular fruits bought across the nation and why they remain household favorites.  

1. Apples  

Apples are among the top choices for South Africans. Locally grown in regions like the Western Cape, varieties such as Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, and Fuji are enjoyed for their crisp texture and sweet-tart flavor. Apples are versatile and affordable, making them perfect for snacks, desserts, and juices.  

2. Bananas  

Loved for their convenience and affordability, bananas are a staple in South African homes. They are a go-to snack, ideal for school lunches, and a favorite for smoothies. Their natural sweetness and nutritional value make them a hit across all age groups.  

3. Oranges  

Citrus fruits, particularly oranges, are another popular choice. South Africa is one of the world’s leading exporters of citrus, and locals enjoy the juiciness and refreshing taste of oranges. Rich in vitamin C, they’re especially in demand during winter to boost immunity.  

4. Grapes  

Grapes are highly favored for their juicy sweetness and convenience. South Africa’s grape-growing regions, such as the Hex River Valley, produce high-quality varieties, available in red, green, and black. They’re enjoyed fresh, in salads, or as part of desserts.  

5. Avocados  

Although technically a fruit, avocados have a special place in South African cuisine. Their creamy texture and rich flavor make them a favorite for sandwiches, salads, and spreads like guacamole. The demand for avocados spikes during harvest season, making them a must-have for many households.  

6. Pineapples  

Pineapples, grown mainly in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, are loved for their tropical sweetness. They’re a refreshing treat, ideal for hot summer days, and widely used in fruit salads, cocktails, and desserts.  

7. Pears  

Pears are another widely consumed fruit, appreciated for their juiciness and versatility. They are a common choice for fresh consumption or as an ingredient in baked goods and preserves.  

South Africans’ love for fruits stems from their affordability, health benefits, and culinary versatility. Locally grown produce ensures freshness and supports the agricultural sector. Whether for snacking, juicing, or cooking, fruits like apples, bananas, and oranges remain staples in South African households.  

Tip for Shoppers  

To enjoy the freshest fruits, explore local farmers’ markets or opt for seasonal produce, ensuring you get the best flavor and value.

NB: Planting 1 of the above fruits tree, will be beneficial for your health and wealth.

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Changing landscape for food production - is your back yard ready

The Changing Landscape of Food Production: Is Your Backyard Ready?

In recent years, the landscape of food production has undergone significant transformation. Climate change, urbanization, and a growing awareness of sustainable living have prompted a shift towards more localized and personal food production methods. One of the most accessible and impactful ways individuals can contribute to this movement is by transforming their backyards into productive gardens. But is your backyard ready to become a miniature farm? Let's explore the trends driving this change and how you can prepare your own slice of the outdoors for food production.

The Drive Towards Localized Food Production

Several factors are contributing to the push for more localized food production:

1. Climate Change and Environmental Concerns: As the global climate becomes increasingly unpredictable, traditional farming faces numerous challenges. Droughts, floods, and extreme weather events disrupt crop cycles and reduce yields. Localized food production, such as backyard gardening, offers a buffer against these disruptions, providing a more controlled environment for growing food.

2. Health and Nutrition: There's a growing awareness about the benefits of consuming fresh, organic produce. By growing your own vegetables and fruits, you can ensure that your food is free from harmful pesticides and chemicals. This not only enhances nutritional value but also promotes better health.

3. Food Security: Recent global events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have highlighted the vulnerability of global supply chains. Local food production can increase food security by reducing dependency on distant sources and ensuring a steady supply of fresh produce.

4. Sustainability and Environmental Impact: Transporting food over long distances contributes significantly to carbon emissions. By growing food locally, you can reduce your carbon footprint and contribute to a more sustainable food system.

Preparing Your Backyard for Food Production

If you're inspired to turn your backyard into a productive garden, here are some steps to get started:

1. Assess Your Space: Evaluate the size of your backyard and the amount of sunlight it receives. Most vegetables and fruits need at least six hours of sunlight daily. Identify areas with good drainage and consider using raised beds if your soil quality is poor.

2. Plan Your Garden: Decide what you want to grow based on your climate and personal preferences. Consider starting with easy-to-grow vegetables like tomatoes, lettuce, and herbs. Companion planting, where certain plants are grown together to enhance growth and deter pests, can also be a useful strategy.

3. Soil Preparation: Good soil is the foundation of a successful garden. Test your soil to determine its pH and nutrient levels. Amend it with compost, organic matter, and other necessary nutrients to create a rich, fertile environment for your plants. Don't worry about the testing this is for profeassionals, you will get there when the time is right.

4. Water Management: Efficient water use is crucial. Install a rainwater harvesting system or use drip irrigation to conserve water. Mulching can help retain soil moisture and reduce the need for frequent watering. This can be a very expensive exercise if badly implemented.

5. Pest and Disease Control: Opt for natural pest control methods to keep your garden organic. Beneficial insects, such as ladybugs and bees, can help manage pests. Crop rotation and proper spacing can prevent the spread of diseases.

6. Seasonal Planting: Learn about the planting seasons in your region. Successive planting, where you plant crops in intervals, can ensure a continuous harvest throughout the growing season.

Embracing the Change

The shift towards backyard food production is more than just a trend; it's a response to pressing global challenges and a step towards a more sustainable future. By transforming your backyard into a productive garden, you contribute to food security, promote health, and reduce your environmental impact.

Moreover, #gardening offers numerous personal benefits. It's a rewarding hobby that provides physical exercise, mental relaxation, and the joy of watching your efforts bloom into tangible, edible results.

So, is your backyard ready? With a bit of planning and effort, anyone can turn their outdoor space into a thriving source of fresh, nutritious food. Embrace the changing landscape of food production and start your backyard garden today. Your future self, and the planet, will thank you.

Life goes on, with or without.

Life goes on with you or without you. Today we are faced with something new, #lockdown! If you have to stay home and not been able to go to work, church, school and/or run your business, how are you going to survive?

Do you have plans in place? Do you have a garden? Can you produce your own food? Can you educate your children? Are you strong? Things will always take their own turn. Everything start at home. Don't mistaken lockdown as a weapon of ideas and lifestyle destruction. You need time to think and to implement your knowledge to the benefit of all life on earth plus the universe. New way of doing things is at our disposal. Whatever happens now has the potential to come back or to continue.

From fruits eaten on a daily basis you can have your own yard business and food supply. You must plant the seeds of every fruit you eat on that day in a 2 kg plastic bag. You don't have to buy plastic bags - use the once you emptied in your kitchen, the likes of samp, rice and so on. Money is everywhere you must grab it. By planting fruit trees you are doing a great deal in life. You keep our planet green, you add to the cleaning of air and you supply animals with shelter, foods and lots of stuff we don't know of. You also contribute to your wellbeing cause you will be getting fresh fruits from your own yard or garden.

Most of this fruit trees start yielding fruits on the second year. Below are some fruit trees which are easily grown from seeds and there is still more.

• Avocado trees
• Pawpaw trees
• Mango trees
• Granadilla trees.
• Apricot trees
• Peach trees
• Orange trees
• Lemon trees
• Plum trees
• Macadamia nuts tree (Wow is it a fruit tree?)

Anyway life goes on. Let us be part of it by embracing nature.

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Do you have enough trees in your garden

With whom can you share your garden? From what we know there will always be uninvited guys who will invade your garden. Some of those invaders are good some are bad. If you can maintain a good balance of both world your garden will look good. Our best advice: we need to share what we have and what we know. We can share our knowledge in the control of the following aspects in the garden:

• Weed control.
• Pest control.
• Parasite control.
• Watering/Moisture.
• Good insects and bad insects balancing.
• Pollination control.
• Tree knowledge.
• Planting and pruning times.
• Photos
• Information
• Sales

We are please to introduce a method in which you can share your knowledge and make money on the side from your garden. You need to open a blog and start blogging about your garden. One fruit tree in your garden is a good start. Before you know it you will be having a variety trees in your garden. Keep following our blog by subscribing via an e-mail to follow. For now lets share a sale on:

Top ten fruits you eat last ten days

Top ten fruits you need to eat all day long. Fruits are pharmacies, you eat them on a daily basis you will survive long enough to see the world evolving. What did you eat in the last ten days?

• Bananas,
• Apples,
• Paw-paws,
• Oranges,
• Grapes,
• Apricots,
• Avocados,
• Grape fruits,
• Plums,
• Lemons

For every fruit you eat how much did you spent to have it? How much will you spent for the next 20 years on fruits only? But wait there is a solution for you. Every fruits you eat please plant the seeds then after 2 years you won't buy fruits. How is that?

Grow your own food and save money

Tomatoes are like fruits. You can eat them as raw as they are,you can cook them, you can use them in salads. Tomatoes has many use. Like bread you need to have tomatoes on a daily basis. Tomatoes are easy to grow and maintain. Do you have them in your garden?

Gardening is not hard labor, it has some heath benefit. When you are in the garden you energize your emotions.Gardening is part of exercise. Eating fresh fruits from the trees is good for your health.

Just spent 30 minutes on a daily basis towards your garden and see the effect in just 3 weeks.

- Health benefit

- Physical benefit

- Mental benefit

- Good looking home

- Money saving

Do you know about the following:

• Tomatoes are great sources of vitamins and minerals.
• Tomatoes improve your vision.
• Tomatoes prevent urinary track infection.
• Tomatoes protects your heart.
• Tomatoes protect your skin.

Grow your own food and enjoy them while still fresh from the garden. You also save yourself money. You are welcome to post and comments about your garden. If you have not started, what is holding you? Plant your own fruits in your own gardens. We just harvested this.

10 easy to grow fruits in your garden

We all want to be at the top. From what we eat so shall we be. Some fruits are easy to grow, no need to spend money all the time if you want to eat fresh fruits. What you need to know and understand is that fruits from the market are not "fresh".Fresh fruits are from the source - that can be your garden not fridge or market.

The following 10 types are easy to grow and maintain:

• Tomatoes
• Strawberries
• Mangoes
• Peaches
• Apricot
• Paw-paw
• Avocado
• Apple
• Figs
• Berries

How much money and time will you save if you can have above mention trees in your garden? How healthy will you be? You need to grow your own food.

Arbor hour,arbor day then week,month and year

Just take one hour in a day towards your success and see how blessed are you. I hope we all know that paper is from trees. Once we know and understand this everyone will be successful. We will all know that by planting trees we are actually planting money,who doesn't want money? Even though most of us used plastic money(cards) the truth is, MONEY is made from PAPER and PAPER is made from trees.
Arbor plant your tree every week and after a year you will be amazed. you won't have any challenge when coming to money matters. Remember: trees are your money.  Plant more trees and reap the benefit.
In a year we have 52 weeks which means you can have 52 trees which will yield fruits on the second set of 52s and by then you will be having 52 kinds of rewards/fruits. Just work your understanding and start planting trees.

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It takes two years

As long as you live one day and forth you will be thankful if you can start today by planting one to two fruit trees per month. you don't need to have a big space to have trees in your yard. you can start by planting inside a pot and keep trimming the tree the maintain a good growth standard.

What you need to know is that, once your trees start yielding fruits you save yourself money and you can use that money to do some household improvements in turn your health will be a t a good standard since you will be eating fruits at their seasons and they are fresh from the tree not from the market.

If you have money to buy fruits is also fine.

Eating seasonal fruits is healthy

As with every foods,we need to eat our fruits while they are still fresh so that we can stay fresh all the time. Life is very busy, we are very busy if you don't act you will be left in the dark. We must say thanks to the progress we are making in this era.

Our message for this week is that, you need to plant,plant and plant almost every day. As you all know that one kind of a fruit on a daily basis keeps a doctor away,it will be good to have all kinds of fruits in your garden.Where I am it is the seasons for avocados. We are busy sowing.

Do you know that everything goes around a circle?

We are so fortunate that we can live in two physical world.

1. The world we have created.
2. The world we have found.

The world we have created is the world of  internet of things. In this world we can say and do our best without been monitored, and is my advice to you that all the trees baring fruits which you have planted so far you can bring the fruits in this world and sell at a profit.

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Just think of the importance of trees

It is very important that each one of us plant at least fifty trees in his/her life times. The most important factor contributed by trees is the oxygen we breath. Trees produce oxygen.

I will try and list some of the things we all use which we get from trees.

• Oxygen
• Paper
• Medicines
• Furniture
• Chemicals
• Shade
• Foods
• Habitat for animals
• Cosmetics

Trees are part and parcels of our lives, Lets take a great care for them. If you can plant one tree every year starting now, you will be making a huge different in life. Even though we won't recognize you the universe will do.

Are you depending on money

The value of money depend on the value we attached to it. This is the way I see it, you might have your own way but this is the way it is. I might want to sell a certain products at a certain price then the buyer find no value in it, it won't sell. Some goods don't worth the price tags associated with them just because everyone want them they turn to be high in prices.

Are you depending on money? Does money determine how far you will go?

Money indeed grows on trees. Never mind those who are educated in putting unwanted issues in your mind. They want you to spent your money with them. Start growing money and exchange for the value you want.

It goes like this.

Start today by planting  #fruttrees, Two years later they will start growing fruits then you exchange them for money. That is what we call money from trees.

Money = fruits.

Very good investment. Look after it. Enjoy reading and share across the board.

Add some more life in your garden

Fruits are beneficial to our health.
When planing your garden add some #fruttrees.
Start small and reap the benefit latter.
Once you start eating from your #fruttrees you will be saving money.
You will be eating fruits at their Season.
Your fruits will be fresh from the tree.

We have a #granadilla tree.

Granadilla fruits are good for your skin. They are very good for your blood cells and they can improve your eye  site.

Granadilla tree is a climber and you can use it for a very good veranda screen or a shade in the garden to sit underneath and enjoy your coffee or tea, reading and surfing the net.

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