The 2 oldest banana circles are finally hitting their stride about a year later. Cowpeas and sweet potatoes are the primary groundcover, 4 varieties per circle with pineapples and ginger mixed in as well.

Working on our soil is a long project, so seeing plants start to do something resembling thriving is super reassuring.

The newer 2 circles are not as joyful but that makes sense, as they have had months less time to break down mulch and food scraps and get roots all situated.

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Baby mango trees! Well, and one breadfruit.

Growing mango from seed will not give you the same kind of mango you got the seed from, but growing out seedlings is how you get new varieties!

4 babies have already moved to the outside semi greenhouse, and 1 still hasn't germinated for a total of 15 mango seeds so far this year.

From last year's much, much smaller and more chaotic round (they had to survive multiple transports, 2 hurricanes and 2 freezes), there are still 4 hanging around and 2 are doing very well and have even moved to their permanent spot in the ground.

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I got a fig tree! Now I have to figure out where it's going to live!

I can keep it in a large container, or I can put it on the citrus grove I'm working on (because citrus are also really nematode sensitive so that area will already be geared towards protection against nematodes) or somewhere else entirely.

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