Hello to all the busy and wonderful gardeners around the world! I hope you're having a great day. As we welcome the spring season in the northern hemisphere and the early autumn in the southern hemisphere, I am in between both. I am currently in our big Indian garden. In the sand, there are no vegetables but many different medicinal plants flowers and fruits are abundant. including coconut and cashews. a big garden where we harvest cashews, coconuts, and the leftover mangoes from the monkeys who have already had their share. Unfortunately, I forgot to take some pictures of our gardening work, but I remember posting about our cashew harvest last year. This will be a long post, so I'll split it into a couple of parts.
Late in the season, we usually go for the mango harvest. We have several mango trees, and Alphanso is the best one. We have three trees of Alphonso. They bear fruit alternatively every second year. This year, we had two trees full of mangoes this season, one Alphanso and the second known as Parrotbike. In my previous post, I wrote about the monkey business and how it's very hard to keep away monkeys and get some fruits. However, we have used several ideas to protect some mangoes for ourselves, and we have been able to succeed partially.
my husband and our gardener harvested the fruit from the top of the tree, and then my husband, and I worked together to complete the process.
Why do we pick unripe mangoes?
The reason is that mangoes that ripen on the tree are not as good in taste. Many worms form inside as soon as they start to rip. and monkeys often destroy or take them as soon as they are ready to ripen. Therefore, we must pick mangoes that have changed from green to reddish-orange carefully without getting damaged. These mangoes are perfect for ripening on the grass bed. All mango growers around this area follow this process to harvest the best mangoes.
After we picked the mangoes, we shared some with a gardener. What was saved for us we cleaned them and placed them upside down position on a jute bag for 3-4 hours to drain all sap. Then, we cleaned the sap from them and organized them on a grass bed. We covered the mangoes with more grass and kept them aside until they turned orange color.
Although some of them need time, and some have spoiled, some got bad, (They could had some bangs or damage during picking or by the wind.)
we still have enough to enjoy ourselves.
Thank you very much.