It's amazing how quickly the plants have responded to the rain. The tomatoes, which were all brown and shrivelly and looking ready to fall over, are now green and tall and blossoming again. So: homegrown tomatoes second crop coming up!
The peppers, which never looked as bad as the tomatoes, are coming back in again, too. More peppers and more blossoms, both.
The mangoes are about done for the season. It's finally gotten to the point where there are fewer falling each night (even after a storm) than the number I can peel and cube in a day. There is one very large bag in the freezer freezer (sort of a strategic reserve), three small bags in the refrigerator freezer, a bowl of fresh cubed in the refrigerator for immediate access along with a large bowl of mango salsa. There are still about three dozen on the counter waiting to be peeled and chopped. And none of this counts the dozens we have given away already. There's maybe a dozen or two left on the tree.
The funny thing is, we're about a month early. The next door neighbor's mango is just starting to ripen. Ditto for other trees in town. We have no idea what makes our little 20 x 20 micro-climate different.
We're just enjoying the results.
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