Gardening along the pacific coast of Mexico is always exciting. We have spectualar and exotic plants offering flowers and fruits of many colors and textures. There's nothing like stepping out in our Melaque garden and picking a fresh papaya or mango for breakfast or sipping fresh coco water from a coconut. Now enjoying papayas and mangos is relatively easy, a papaya tree is small and mango trees, although large, offer fruit on low hanging branches.
Coconuts are a bit of challenge. We are blessed with several large coconut trees on El Palmar's grounds and every three to four months we need to trim them up and harvest the cocos. Coconut harvesting is best left for the professionals as it requires someone to shimmy up the tree, tie-off the clumps of coconuts, hack the stem with a machete and carefully lower the bounty down to the ground. And this is usually all done barefoot!
This past week we hired Lalo to come over and clean-up our coconut trees. Here is a short video of the process.
