Our Mexican Garden: Its Fruit Trees

We are at 5000 feet, and not that far north, just outside Guadalajara at Lake Chapala. We have quite a few fruit trees on our quarter-acre, because the Mexican man who owned this place for over 40 years loved to plant trees.  Here is one of several papaya trees.  This one is female. Others are male, and there is a hermaphrodite (no kidding) with produces much smaller fruits.

Our lemon tree produces at least a few lemons each week, year round, but now in the winter, it is really going to town. We are always giving lemons away, as we get about two a day at this time of year. When I took this photo, the tree had hundreds of lemons on it. Some fall off while green, but many turn yellow before falling off. We never bother with a ladder for the high ones, just wait for them to fall.

You can't really see the bananas here all that well but I thought that the poinsettias growing over six feet high might be worth showing as well.

 

 

 

 

And here are those bananas, getting pretty close to ready. It's feast or famine around here with the bananas -- we've been buying them at the market for months. Friends are coming from Colorado soon, and I am hoping that the bananas will be ripe for them. Once they begin to ripen, we pick the whole thing and give away a lot.

I didn't get photos of our loquat trees, our one little mango tree that hasn't done anything yet, our pistachio tree, our lychee tree, or our pomegranate trees. Nor our young avocado tree -- avocados are actually fruit. Another time!