Learning another new skill...sewing "clothes" for the fruit trees. It is all the latest fashion for protecting young guava fruit from worms. Our year old guava tree is valiantly producing fruit. However, the few that we picked were full of worms. We weren't too surprised because all the leaves looked like swiss cheese. It turns our the ants were munching on the leaves and somehow that made the fruit susceptible to worms. Lilo's suggestion is to bag each of the fruit just after they blossom. He showed us how to sew this delightful ensemble of oyster pink plastic. Cut a strip of plastic, fold over and sew up the sides, then cut a notch in the
neckline. Insert the fruit into the notch and drape the plastic over it. Then sew up the neck notch very tightly to prevent the ants from climbing onto the fruit while it is growing. I've clothed about a dozen guava so far. Lilo sprayed the tree too. The new leave don't show any sign of being eaten. We are hoping this will do the trick.
Next time that you eat a pineapple, please take a moment to savor it and appreciate the effort that Mother Nature infuses into each pineapple. We have 2 pineapple gardens under cultivation. The one closest to the eastern quebrada is about 18 months old. When we arrived in December, there were 2 small pineapples sprouting. This is the largest.
It will be another 2 months before this one will be ready to harvest. It takes about 6 months for 1 pineapple to grow. Fortunately, we have 5 other pineapples in various stages of growth and each is sprouting "hijos." We are expecting a great harvest eventually. In the meantime, we buy delicious ripe pineapples from our Vegetable vendors, Victor and Allian.
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