Yesterday my brother-in-law sent me a photo of some of the avocados he picked on our property, with a note that is is only his "share", that 3 other family members got the same amount. This variety is called poponol, they bear fruit twice a year, and they are massive, they look like zucchinis!
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but how do they taste?
Buttery and delicious. Everyone around us grows avocados, but everyone wants ours. On Saturday our cousin took our dogs down to the beach for a walk and swim, and while he was gone someone came in and stole a bunch of them. When he got back he picked them all and took them back to the city.
Our "crello" avocados are all more or less ready, have been eating them for 2 weeks.
The " inerto" ones, not yet.
Everybody seems to prefer crello, but only grow inerto....... go figure.
This year, for the first time, we have tiny ones that are really, really dense. No kdea what they are called.
Last year we lost lots of avocado to the " carpentero", a bird that drills holes in the fruit. Campisonos told us to hang rags in the tree to scare them off, to no avail. This year I used my mothers technic : I hang CD's on the trees. And it works. I have seen people hang aluminium foil, too.
the reason i asked was because some large avocados are watery and lack flavor. the best i am yet to try is the vaunted Simmonds from Jamaica, which is in another league.
This year I used my mothers technic : I hang CD's on the trees. And it works. I have seen people hang aluminium foil, too.
It is nice to have a use for those awful CD's you bought because you liked the cover that turned out to cause ear cancer, or those CD's that did not copy right.
I have never met and (unspoiled) aguacate I did not like.
I've had very good luck freezing avocados after mashing them. I freeze them in quart or gallon Ziplock bags only 1/2" thick so they thaw quickly. They don't go black at all. But with guacamole, the fresh tomatoes don't do so well after freezing.