Today was the day that I constructed a shady tent for my young avocado tree. I've had her fifteen months now: last summer and fall's sun took their toll on her delicate leaves, and by the end of the leaf-dormant winter they'd darkened and fallen off. But a new bunch sprouted, and I know better this year, and I'm mimicking the kind of leaf cover that a juvenile tree would have in nature, growing up under parental shade. Yes, that is an old Frog and the Peach umbrella from New Brunswick on top of the post, offering shelter from the straight-overhead sun ... (as for avocado fruits themselves ... edible ones should start to appear - oh, four or five years from now ...).
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