Secret Aeolian gardens

Today Bartolino and I went up to one of his big gardens in the mountain. Absolutely gorgeous.

He has 3 mango trees, 2 different types. The mangoes leaked juice from their steams when they were picked, even though they weren’t ripe.

4 avocado trees, one male and 3 female

 

 

pear trees,

 

peach trees, kumquats, mandarins, oranges, lemons, olives

 malvasea grapes, prickly pears

bamboo, American fichus, pomegranate, potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes, onion, garlic, almonds, and many many more. I could sit and eat on that mountian side for weeks.  

The view from Bartolinos cousins house that sits just above the fruit garden and just below the veggie garden. 

This house is massive!

 

The almonds are size of tea light candles and I’m talking shelled! They are sooo good! They have a green fuzzy outer layer then a brown hard inner shell then the thin coat around the white almond. They are not hard like a dried or roasted almond we usually eat but have the consistency of a water chestnut except a little drier.