Mangoes fall like rain

Each year between late April and the end of May, the mangoes on our huge tree at Las Plumerias begin to ripen. The fruit has been growing for months but now a few start turning beautiful shades of red and orange. One or two fall to the ground, then five or six, and then it starts raining mangoes, sometimes more than thirty in one day!

These mangoes are amazing… intensely sweet but with enough sourness to balance it, with creamy flesh that melts in your mouth — and our neighbors love them! That’s a good thing because there are just so many of them and we need to pick them up right away before they attract the iguanas.

We can’t eat them all. Our neighbors can’t eat them all. So we bring them inside, peel and chop them, and pack them into ziplock bags, and put them in the freezer. But no matter how many we freeze or give away, there are always more.

Would you please come and help us with them? If you can’t come in May, there will probably still be mangoes in the freezer later in the year…