Ever since I heard that there are strawberry trees in Thailand I wanted one. And suddenly one day I was very lucky and detected one in my garden in Pattaya! One of its suckers I took to Discovery Garden Nong Khai where it has grown tremendously since. I was always enthusiastic about my unique strawberry trees whereas most Thai people were little impressed….

The Passiflora foetida produces spectacular flowers and attractive red passion fruits. They are the smallest passion fruits of the world and taste quite sweet. Therefore the birds like them too and distribute them all over the garden. The Passiflora foetida can be seen at Dicovery Garden Pattaya and Nong Khai (Thailand) where you also can order seeds.

Have you ever seen how cashew nuts are grown? At Discovery Garden Nong Khai Hans Fritschi detects the very first cashew nut. In order to get close up pictures he uses a drone that flies right up to the cashew apple and that lonely seed. Not only is the seed edible, the whole fruit turns out to be delicious as well.

If you want to make chocolate from your own garden, you have to grow cocoa first. Cocoa trees can easily be grown from seeds. Just use fresh seeds, do not burry them too deeply into the soil and water frequently. Within Thailand you can aquire fresh seeds from our Discovery Gardens Pattaya or Nong Khai.

When the battle of Grandson took place in 1476 the Swiss general in charge did not have enough meat for his soldiers. So he added cabbage and boiled grind to a newly created sausage. Needless to say, he won the battle, probably due to that excellent “saucisse aux choux” that has since become a specialty of French speaking Switzerland. At Discovery Garden Pattaya we prepare such sausages in this episode.

Poucheria campechiana, Canistel, Eggfruit or Mon Kai are just some names for a yellow tropical fruit we grow at Discovery Garden Pattaya and Nong Khai. The consistency of the yellow flesh reminds one of boiled egg joke, though it is sweet. It can be processed into creamy deserts, cup cakes or eaten in a yoghurt. The eggfruit can be easily grown from seeds or from seedlings. We can send eggfruit plants within Thailand to your place.

It took nine years until a rare nut tree from Venezuela delivered first flowers today at Discovery Garden Pattaya. The so called “Money Tree” aka Pachira insignis is the rarest tree of the Pachira family. And the stunning flowers that appeared now for the first time was well worth the extended waiting period. Now we wait for the first edible nuts of the unique Pachira insignis.

If you want to eat home made smoked ham in Thailand, you first have to cure meat for ten days in the fridge. Hans Fritschi picks the smoking wood from his luscious tropical garden and thus turns ordinary meat into delicacies. Adding a home made potato salad to that simple meal turns the whole culinary experience into a feast.

After drilling a new well, we finally have enough water to install a brand new, but very simple sprinkle system. By watering our cocoa trees when necessary, we can expect a higher yield and chocolate production can start in earnest. At Discovery Garden Pattaya we build simple, but effective new things almost on a daily basis. The Thai brother in law just constructed a new incubator and some stone elephants were integrated into a water fall. Tomorrow is another day and we plan to build a safe and spacy encroachment for our younger geese.

If hatching goslings cannot break a hole into the protecting egg shell, they will suffocate. At Discovery Garden Pattaya we carefully help them to crack the shells and getting out of the egg which is protective, but also often a deadly straight jacket. It is always a difficult or delicate task, but this time around we are successful and can save another three goslings.