Avocados

Luis, our landlord, lives in Guanacaste province. He has a brother who lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

We are renting his mother’s house in San Roque de Grecia, Alajuela province. We live in sort of a Tico compound - we are the last house at the end of a lane. Luis has aunties and uncles who live in some of the other houses. It seems that everyone looks out for us!

We have a large avocado tree:

This year it is loaded with avocados. I picked as many as I could by hand and also using a fruit picking pole. Luis contacted me and asked if his two uncles could come by and pick as many as they could. Of course we said yes - there’s more than enough for everyone.

Duque (neighbour’s dog) came by for a visit:

We ended up with a good supply of avocados and the uncles had lots to take home with them.

Some of our haul:

We’ve already eaten quite a few of them. Avocados don’t start ripening until after they are picked  and they don’t all ripen at the same time so we have a continuing supply of ripe avocados.

The Tico Times has this interesting article about avocados in Costa Rica.

We also have a mango tree, two different species of orange trees and lots of limes:

There are still lots of avocados left on the tree.