I love you like a mango

When I was building I told my contractor that I wanted to plant mango trees. They told me I didn’t.

They said that mago trees are like willow trees in the north. They demand lots of water. Flourishing mango trees mean there is lots of water in the soil. That might suggest considering whether there might be problems associated with excess ground water to be addressed before construction. (My contractor also said it is cheaper to rectify geophysical issues before construction than after.l

My soil has a lot of clay, so mango trees would have required a lot of watering (Read money and excess demand on a scarce resource.)

The contractor said that if they were anywhere near a cistern, septic, or pool, the roots would penetrate even concrete to get to the moisture and the roots would split the concrete.

I still kind of wanted mango trees. The contractor said that eating mangoes are so cheap during the season that buying them is cheaper than growing them and putting up with them during the season. Huh?

He took me to his home where there were several large mango trees. (They can easily grow to 30 feet or more.) The place smelt like a winery. The mangoes were fermenting on the trees. There were scores of fermenting mangoes on the ground. The contractor said they picked them up every day. There with hundreds of wasps. There was bird poop everywhere from the birds eating mangoes.

I decided to have other vegetation and buy my mangoes.

Eddy Grant sang “I love you like a mango”, but he didn’t sing, “I love you like a mango grove.”

https://youtu.be/ZzUSPRLEL1E?si=mpx5J9P3mAsa3AWu