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During the February 2025 freeze in Texas, a grower named Ray watched the temperature on his patio thermometer drop to 16°F. He had three mango trees in his backyard near Houston. Two were young trees, … Read more
A guy named Marcus in a South Florida gardening group I follow posted something that stuck with me. He’d had a mango tree for seven years. Beautiful, tall, full canopy of dark green leaves. But … Read more
Last spring, a woman named Diana posted in a local gardening group I follow. She’d planted a beautiful grafted mango tree in her backyard two years earlier. It grew well the first year. Then the … Read more
A few years ago, my neighbor Carlos knocked on my door holding a small, wrinkled yellow mango. It looked nothing like the big red ones I’d been buying from the grocery store. He said, “Try … Read more
I’ll never forget the first time I saw a durian in person. A grower named Heng in Homestead, Florida, had been nursing his durian tree for over a decade. He invited me over when his … Read more
A friend of mine — let’s call her Priya — grows a massive jackfruit tree in her backyard in South Florida. She started it from seed about eight years ago. For the first few years, … Read more
My buddy Marcus grows tropical fruit trees in his backyard in South Florida. A few years back, he finally got his durian tree to fruit after nearly a decade of babying it through cold snaps … Read more
Last summer, I brought in a basket of perfectly ripe tomatoes from my garden. Three days later, my kitchen looked like a science experiment gone wrong. Tiny flies swarmed every surface. They hovered over my … Read more
A woman at our community garden in South Florida brought in a bag of star fruit last fall. She had a tree in her backyard that was producing more than her family could handle. Probably … Read more
Last summer, my strawberry patch went absolutely wild. I’m talking buckets of berries every few days for three weeks straight. My neighbor Carol saw me hauling the fifth harvest basket to my kitchen and yelled … Read more
My neighbor Margaret called me last summer in a panic. Her backyard apple tree was loaded with fruit, and she had no idea what to do with hundreds of apples. “I’ve been buying expensive superfood … Read more
My friend Sarah started a keto diet last summer and immediately swore off all fruit. Her raspberry bushes—the same bushes she’d carefully tended for three years—went unpicked. The berries rotted on the vine while she … Read more