Summer is all about Mangoes....

My dear social friends, brothers and sisters ... 

Vanakkam, Namaste. Good Day...

 

I trust everyone is doing well.. This blog is about latest updates on Mango season from my farm. Last month, I visited my farm and spent sometime there. Sharing few experiences from there... Stay on..

It is me, blushing in below picture - my daughter's comment about this pic (i.e. look at a software dev...lol..) and her click, and the next pic is her photographic experiments...

This time it is peak summer (above 100F :( ) in India. 

Two important seasons to call out this in blog:

1.  Mango season

2.  Palm Water / Palm Nectar / Padhaneer and Ice Apples season

Mango Season:

I planted many trees around 2016. Exactly 10 years ago. An interesting moment this time… My kids were asking to buy mangoes from shop. I said, No, and explained all the processes used to make it ripe. As usual kids were bored with my boring comments. I told why don’t you visit our farm, harvest mangoes from there and try out the process.  You could also gift few to your friends..  This raised their antenna! 

 

All agreed and visited farm. Kids saw the mango trees, various varieties of mangoes. They were able to reach out the mangoes easily. Please see below picture. An interesting quote came out. “Dad, did you plant these trees”. I said, yes. I did. Did you grow these trees?, yes, I did.  They were so curious and suddenly all the love towards me... 

 

 

They saw varieties of mango trees and varieties of shapes, and hanging in various places. i.e. few in their reachable locations and few are very high etc.. My son and my daughter packed enough for them and we are all set.  Interestingly., my daughter was taking various nice pics and few are here. 

 

I took one mango which was ripe in tree itself, damage done by a squirrel. It was fully ripe from tree itself. Have you ever tasted a mango, fully ripe from tree itself?. If not, please try one. This would be an unbelievable taste.

 

I also explained to my kids about the process of harvesting. If you don’t follow proper process, it will hurt your skin…

It is also good to see harvesting trees.. it gives happiness, freshness and rejuvenates you.  I was so happy to see this! A good break from work. :)

Letz move on... 

Next season: Palm water / Palm Nectar / Ice apple season: 

These trees were planted by my dad when he was very young. I am blessed enough to harvest “ice apples” or palm nectar from these trees.  Kids were happy to see ice apples in trees. 

I also inaugurated the season for palm nectar / padhaneer as per traditional process. Hoping to get good palm sugar.

I planed around few coconut trees as well 10 years go and they were welcoming us with harvesting too.  Please see few pictures from these coconut trees. I planted these trees along with mango and guava trees. 

For me it was an usual visit to my farm. But for my kids, It was a fun trip. For me, it was a surprise!!!, kids felt love for my farming experiences and talked a lot about that! mmm! 

OK, everyone. Thank you for reading this.... :) Sharing is caring!... Sharing what I experienced in last week..

We will catch up in the next blog and take care!

Bye, Nandri. Take care!

My palm tree plantation is here: https://blog.prabakarpaulsami.com/2021/11/planted-100-palm-trees-palmyra-palm.html.