Mango Irwin

Mango Irwin. Those pots are 45 cm high, so engineer Jansen needs to blast a big hole. And what does he find? A huge stone. Grmbl. Move 50 cm to the back, then. (Notice the cushion, for engineer Jansen’s sensitive knees.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_(mango)

Huuuge stone, no one has huge stones like we do. It’s an amazingly ginormous stone! Huuge!

This takes almost two hours. Notice the cushion, for engineer Jansen’s sensitive knees.

Engineer Jansen’s Ingenious Soil Sifting System™

To plant one lime tree in this rocky stony soil Engineer Jansen uses 100 grams dynamite, a hammar drill, shovels and Engineer Jansen’s Ingenious Soil Sifting System™. Yes, that is a pile of rocks at the arrow.

Endless Margaritas in 2, 3 years time.

Do notice Pili at the top of the picture.

Lime, pile of stones, Pili and mango

One of Engineer Jansen’s piles.

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Engineer Jansen’s Ingenious Soil Sifting System™

Mango or not? (3 November 2021)

 Mango, or not?

Our one and only almost ripe mango, blown off the tree this morning. It looks like it is hurt, or someone may be living inside..

It was very good, the dent is only superficial.

Mangos

The spot next to the water tunnel and the garage is where the 3 riego (irrigation) water pipes issue their water into the irrigation channels. They're not too careful with that, and the channels leak, so it's always quite wet there. And nice and green. Apparently mango trees use a lot of water, so that's the spot. Bought two, 16€, var "Sensacion". Well, that sounds promising.

Mango nr. 1 (var "Especiosa")

Mango nr. 2

Original planting hole of mango nr. 1

That is because I underestimated how big a mango can grow. They can, apparently, grow 10-12 m in size. Well, in the tropics. To be sure I dug up mango nr.1 again and replanted it a few meters further on.