I'll be checkin back in on this site next week... and maybe the following week, too.
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What are those?
Mango?
MANGOES!!!!!
I suppose someone is going to tell us they taste like chicken. ????ÿ
Have no idea whether they taste like lemons, limes, oranges or hedgeapples
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I once worked on a project when I was a crew chief staking out about 5,000 LF of sewer force main that ran parallel with a hedge row that was packed with raspberries at their peak of ripeness.?ÿ Filled my lunch cooler to the brim at the end of every day for a week.?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ
There is/was an unsuccessful attempt to grow those commercially in FL. The remaining garden varieties taste ugh compared to Hawaiian or Caribbean ones. Lucky you living on the Big Island. ?????ÿ
Occasionally we'd be Surveying some expensive homes on the west side of Boulder Colorado, from the late 19th century, and along with the still flowing water rights for irrigation, they had remnants of pear, cherry, apple and apricot orchards.
Same results. Free fruit tree rip is hard to beat.?ÿ I'm looking at a pomegranate tree I spied here in Las Cruces for my next bounty.
Thought the west side of Boulder was the Flatirons.?ÿ Tough to grow anything but moss on those.
Nay.?ÿ The west side was the pediment of the flatirons and as such was fertile and over looks the unwashed masses...
To be fair, northwest west of Broadway
Have no idea whether they taste like lemons, limes, oranges or hedgeapples
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Was just trying to explain a hedgeapple to one of our inspectors yesterday who is a native of South Dakota. He had no idea what I was talking about.
Have spent time west of Broadway on Grape at my cousin's house.?ÿ Nothin' west of there but scenery.
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Have your parents ship him a 50 lb box of them.?ÿ He can then study up online as to all the miracles they can perform around the house, or under it.
And about a dozen of these little ones today, hiding in tangled grass and rusty barbed wire.?ÿ I'll have to make a reason to go back there in about a month.
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I have to say that mango trees themselves are a PITA. At 17 deg south here they are virulent growers and suck up ground moisture, reach big heights and the bats love the fruit. So at night you get screeching bats and the sound of mangos dropping on a tin roof. Then there's the bat s**t. The neighbours have one on their side of the back fence. It grows over our side and a few years ago we got so sick of it that we paid them $100 to shimmy up it and trim it. So now it's got monetary value to them.
@richard-imrie Ugh.?ÿ We have a very small bat population here (of very small bats) so that's not something I'd heard of.?ÿ The wild pigs love em but they're a problem all over the island in all aspects of ground and foliage.
I know some people have a sometimes fairly serious reaction to a secretion from mango skin, but otherwise I think we only have the positives for them, which have easily become my favorite fruit.?ÿ Can't wait to get a bag of these.
They also completely missed having mango access as another arrow in the quiver for how to win friends and influence people.
@holy-cow They do taste like a sweet, juicy, fruity chicken.
@squirl I've never heard of a hedgeapple either.?ÿ We have something they call a mountain apple here that's not an apple but looks a little bit like a smaller version of one, tastes pretty good and I'd never heard of either.?ÿ I'm finding that there are a lot of tasty and unusual plant goods that never made the global produce shipping system. like the dozens of other avocado and banana varieties we also have.?ÿ Tasty research.
