The Mexican avocado, as I was told these were, looks very different from the avos one mostly finds here in the supermarket. The usual type is dark-skinned and sort of knobby-looking, and, interestingly, has a slightly more robust flavor than the one below.
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Sleeting rain came through a small, permanently-open window up at the top of the wall in my 'chill space' and soaked the wooden, plant trolley. I wiped all the moisture away, then set about rearranging plants and furniture in effort to make sure that the rain, when it comes again, only hits plants. So far, so good.
Yummy! Enjoy your windfall!
ReplyDeleteYes, thank you! Also: Free food is good food. :)
DeleteOh to live in a place where avocados drop on your doorstep. I have West Indian friends who miss the Mangoes in their gardens.
ReplyDeleteKiwi and persimmon grow very well here as well!
DeleteYum. I welcome rain anyway, but raining avos? Bliss.
ReplyDeleteVery nice, indeed.
DeleteWhat an eclectic chill collection. Love the glass ball.
ReplyDeleteYes, the bauble is a German Xmas ornament I picked up years ago. I have a glass head of garlic out there in the chill space as well. :)
DeleteMy late husband and I grew avocados, mainly Hass and Fuerte but we had a few Zutano which look a lot like the ones you were given. I really miss the trees and having to buy avocados. Free food is great - we were given some Luisa Plums this morning.
ReplyDeleteWow, Susan, how wonderful that you and your late husband grew avocados. I had heard that one needed both a male and female tree to be present in order for the female to produce fruit. This particuluar tree seems to be a stand-alone, and a giant at that. The lowest hanging branches are still about 15 to 20 feet off the ground.
DeleteThe skin on this variety is also quite thin and bitter-tasting. The pit is a lovely tear-drop shape.
We're lucky we have the free avo hook-up!
Oh to have an avo tree of any variety!!..not a hope in Scotland!! It's heaven staying in NZ, proper tasting ripe fruit.....
ReplyDeleteYeah, it sounds like NZ and Calif. might have similar climates. Scotland probably boasts some amazing apple varieties, I reckon.
DeleteA permanently open window? Yikes, that's not a good thing.
ReplyDeleteMy mother tried to get an avocado tree going in our backyard when I was a kid. The tree grew, but it never produced any fruit.
I got my brother up on a ladder to try and shut the window, but it's wedged open & won't budge. It ain't great, to be sure.
DeleteYeah, I think a male and a female tree need to be in the vicinity of one another in order for the magic to happen.
Our neighbor has an avocado tree that is prolific, but I don’t know of any others in the area. The only fruit I’ve had from it was an avocado a squirrel stole, then carried up the street and dropped by my front door. I buy bags of them at Trader Joe’s now — recall tasting them for the first time years ago when we moved west. Have grown a plant from the seed in a pot a couple times, just for the greenery, but understand they don’t usually produce if that’s what is wanted.
ReplyDeleteThree years ago, we grew a small avo plant from seed. It lives out in the chill space with the succulents. That's a nice avo memory from your early years here out west.
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