Mum said something to me quite funny today. She showed me 2 huge mangoes from our garden. I was quite surprised because about ten years ago, the trees went crazy dropping mangoes like nobody’s business. We had one at a record weight of almost 3kgs. But after the rather fertile streak, the trees just stopped producing.
We tried all sorts of methods – fertilizers, cutting branches to give the tree more sunlight and we even tried smoking it, but to no avail. So the tree was just a tree in the garden with no sweet treats for almost a decade.
My family had always been hopeful until one day they told the gardener to go threaten the tree. So there he was standing in front of the tree saying “Bear us mangoes or I’ll chop you down”. My grandaunt came out, touched the tree and said a prayer. Next thing you know, we get big fat juicy mangoes :)
Excuse my poor drawing skills. I should just stick to jewellery, but this was the first thing that came to mind.
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