It's official - we have 353 mangosteens! I have just spent the afternoon walking around the 'commercial' part of our farm, counting our trees. Every year we plant new mangosteens in the gaps where other trees have died. So we are never quite sure how many mangosteens we actually have.
The planting season - April/May is about to start. We have another 100 mangosteens ready to go in. I am walking around the orchard looking for spaces to squeeze in some more - every nook will have another mangosteen if it will fit. Some of the wild rocky areas which we have never cleared in 20 years are now on the agenda.
