Eat Mangos Naked

     This post really doesn't have anything to do with being naked, but it does mention mangos.

      Several entries down, you can find out about my laundry room urban farm. It isn't doing well, by the way. I have one anemic little tomato, some limp and fizzled herbs, a couple of bell pepper plants, and the sunflowers are just dead. I don't know why. They had soil, sun and water...what more do they want from me?? 

     Interestingly, I do have this:

That is a mango tree! Natalie (Grandbaby duck) and I started this project with mango juice dripping off our chins. Natalie said, "hey, Grammy, can we plant this seed?"  Good question! Google said that yes we could! Make a cut in the seed and put it in a jar of water, it instructed us. Change the water every day, and in two weeks, plant it in soil. So that's what we did, only it was about 5 weeks, and I sometimes didn't change the water every day.

     I sort of wish I had a picture of that seed when we finally got around to planting it. I did take a picture, but it was disturbing and I deleted it. It was rather pornographic in a plantish kind of way! Anyway! I got it in the soil and in just a couple of days, it looked like this;

And another couple of days, it looked like this:

That was about a week ago, and today it looks like this;

What we have here is a thriving little mango tree! Google has images of mature mango trees. Hint: a grown mango tree will not fit inside the house. Neither will it tolerate temps below 40 degrees. Now we have a problem. Here is this beautiful healthy  flourishing plant, but it's future is doomed! How tragic is that?! 

     I suppose we will let it grow for as long as it will fit inside, and worry about it later.

     For now, Natalie and I are so pumped by our mango success  that we are attempting a pineapple.