My annual summer cold arrived last week, lucky me. 🙄 I’ve been trying my best to rest and heal, though I know it just takes time. There’s a saying in my family, “If you treat a cold, you’ll get better in 2 weeks. If you don’t, you’ll get better in 14 days.”

I think my garden* heard me sniffling because my first guavas of the season just ripened! I harvested a couple dozen of the roughly ping-pong ball-sized fruits (and promptly devoured half of them).

They are not only delicious but good for me – containing high amounts of Vitamin C, as well as Vitamin A, folate, and potassium. I think I feel better already!

As you can see, there’s a lot more on the way. Both of my Strawberry Guava bushes are absolutely loaded this year. Even after I thinned fruitlets multiple times since I was worried the branches would break from the weight of all the growing berries (yes, botanically speaking, a guava is a berry).

Should be a tasty Summer!

*During the rainy season, yard work still has to happen no matter what, or else the jungle takes over…