Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future!

This is very interesting. Are you going to try it? I read it is not frost tolerant. Is that correct?

Hi my dear Val, how are you? Yes of course i will try it... and if you want, you will get it too... well i read this can get -2C temp, but this can have a crop really fast, so i will try it! This is a realy valuable superfood, and you can eat the leaves too... this can substitute fish to populations that can't have it, so... too important to don't try it!

Plant as an annual (early), just like pigeon peas? Ok I'm in. The pods look cool.

Yes that's it! When i receive them i will send it (just 3 seeds ok)I have other's to send you.

It IS a valuable superfood! I'm so glad you posted. We are the only ones on this thread anymore. Too bad. There is so much info here.
We sold a few young blue tilapia to a man and wife this weekend who live in the same town. They are growing pigeon peas and said they have reseeded and spread everywhere. I gave them a stalk of cassava for planting, roselle pod and promised to call them when the moringa trees produce seed. People are learning.

So nice! Yes three seeds will be fine. I will care for them like babies. Thank you. So kind. I have huge roselle pods I am letting go to seed for you.

yes it's great to share with others! what is the tilapia?

Fish, native to Israel but introduced by the state into florida waterways a long time ago. I am growing and breeding in an above ground swimming pool without electricity and pumps. It works under certain conditions like warm temps and full sun. Containers must be 2 1/2 _3 1/2 ft deep with sand on the bottom.

ha ok...

Its crazy and ugly but a good experiment.

i like more fruits!

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my pigeon pea and moringa are stiff dead

in other hand my avocados did great

Well we just can't give up! My pigeon pie and moringa too, but they can regrowth from root!

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Luis & Lionhound, I'm very excited to tell you both that I harvested my first crop of pigeon peas today! So glad I found this crazy website and your thread! Thank you!

Today I am planting comfrey which I recently learned makes excellent compost tea.

Happy gardening!

WOW congratulations!!! Well i still don't have them, but Valerie will send me more pigeon peas! How you will eat them?

Will make a rice and pigeon pea dish, probably with garlic, onion, ginger and spices. Very happy to have found this plant to add to my garden.

Do you have moringa?

Yes! It's flowering right now but doesn't seem to be producing pods. I want to be able to give seed away but no luck yet. I am planting more this weekend. I use the leaves in soups, in green smoothies along with kale and fruit, and I also like to dry it and crumble it and add to my tea. LOVE IT!

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Health benefits of Ridge Gourd

Vegetables from the gourd family are extremely advantageous through the health perspective. There are actually various types of gourds cultivated around the world. In India, the frequently ingested ones are bitter gourds, bottle gourds, ridge gourds, and also snake gourds. Ridge gourd is additionally referred to as turai or even luffa. It’s really a dark green, ridged vegetable possessing white pulp along with white seeds baked into its soft flesh. It is extremely fibrous to consume.

Ridge gourd is quite lower in saturated fats as well as calories. It really is abundant with dietary fiber, vitamin C, riboflavin, zinc, thiamin, iron, as well as magnesium. A few of the health advantages linked to the ridge gourd shows up below:

1. Excellent blood purifier

Ingesting the ridge gourd within your frequent diet is an effective way of cleansing your blood for the pollutants which get combined along with it. In addition, it acts to boost the liver health and serves to decrease the side results of alcohol intoxication.

2. Possessing laxative properties

This particular veggie is additionally recognized for having healthy laxative qualities. The ridge gourd may serve as a highly effective alleviation towards the constipation problems and may even be utilized to cure piles disease. It features a managing impact on the working ability of the stomach.

3. Cure for jaundice

For very long, the medicinal properties of healing jaundice have been related to the ridge gourd. Juice obtained from this particular vegetable is offered to such patients, whilst the seeds as well as dry crust of the vegetable additionally serve exactly the same objective.

4. Beneficial for diabetes

Particular qualities built into the ridge gourd allow it to be of assistance to the diabetics. This is mainly because of the existence of insulin just like peptides within this vegetable that provide to reduce the sugar level in both the blood along with the urine. Additionally, it restricts the blood insulin level to the reasonable quantity.

5. Aiding weight loss

There are a multitude of causes of including the ridge gourd in your weight loss program. First it is extremely lower in saturated fats content; secondly, it possesses a lower consumption of cholesterol towards the body; thirdly, it offers very reasonable amount of fat and calories; fourthly, it includes a lot of water within it.

Consuming this particular veggie keeps you satiated for extended time period, minimizing your want to eat again. Last however not the least, the nutritional value which it offers by means of dietary fibers, vitamins and minerals is a wonderful help to lose weight.

6. Anti-inflammatory and anti-biotic

Anti-inflammatory as well as anti-biotic properties seemed to be related to this particular vegetable. It is just a excellent natural method of eliminating the toxic compounds through the entire body. It’s got always been utilized like a home treatment solution for skincare. It may also be utilized for liberation from intoxication.

7. Fortifying the immune system

A strong defense mechanisms means that the body will be better able to defend against bacterial infections as well as maintain in the healthy way soon after catching up illnesses. Juice obtained from the ridge gourd is recognized for conditioning the defense mechanisms and therefore allowing it to combat in the better way towards infections as well as viruses.

8. Skin care

Whenever ridge gourd/loofah is allowed to mature and also dry within the vine, it may be harvested like a sponge. Everything (skin and seeds) is taken away from them apart from the primary network. Loofah sponge has been utilized historically just as one exfoliation product whenever bathing. They’re excellent for eliminating the dead skin cells leaving behind the skin smooth as well as conditioned. They could also assist encourage the skin therefore rendering it healthier and much more radiant. The blood purifying qualities ensure that you stay clear of pimples as well as acne. Loofah sponge may also help manage body as well as foot odor.

Loofah sponge, as being a natural fiber, will certainly attract the development of mold as well as microbes if not looked after correctly. It is therefore important to help keep loofah sponge clean by making sure you rinse off all soaps or even salt residues and let it to air dry right after use.

9. Good for stomach

Cellulose within ridge gourd helps you to conquer bowel problems and in addition helps with healing piles.

Additional health benefits
•It is also helpful for management of acidity as well as ulcers and could be advantageous for offering comfort to exhaustion as well as anxiety. Additionally, it established to be great to cure cold. Burning up feeling experienced with the urine may also be handled utilizing a juice of the veggie coupled with lime juice.
•Additionally, it serves to revive to health dryness within the body by enhancing the growth and development of numerous body fluids. The ridge gourd is well known because of its use like a cooling agent. The beta carotene present in this particular veggie causes it to be great for the eye health and is recognized to enhance eyesight.
•Additionally it is utilized like a home cure for the management of bilious fever. A reduced known health advantage of the vegetable is it helps with the assimilation of nutrition within the body. The capability to calm down the working of the brain has additionally been linked to the ridge gourd.
•Furthermore, it functions like a great scrub along with exfoliating qualities to eliminate the dead skin cells existing onto the skin and it is considered to be ideal for few skin conditions. It may also guard from the hair loss as well as tooth. Type 2 diabetes is likewise cured to a substantial degree by consuming on this veggie.
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