Baby Mango

In this, the fourth year of our mango tree, we hoped for a profusion of fruit. For the first time it burst into luxuriant bloom instead of featuring scattered blooms here and there. A visual inspection a week or two later revealed numerous tiny fruit beginning to grow. But mango trees are sensitive to overwatering, and wind, and will just plain drop their fruit for no apparent reason. We are down to three mangoes, about the same production as in previous years.

So much for me canning mango.

No mango cobbler. No mango preserves. No mango pie. I'll be forced to buy my mango with sweet sticky rice.