Avocado season

3rd September 2025

We LOVE avocados. It’s touch and go with some of them, you buy them rock hard, store them in the bowl with bananas and patiently wait for the creamy flesh to slowly soften. That gentle pressure on the skin, you feel the give and bang …..“Eat me NOW!!!!”…… It talks to you. However I’m sure you have all experienced the unyielding press test, thought … “ha I’m watching you” and left it for the next day. On return it’s brown mush and you can salvage a teaspoon only or none at all. I swear a nefarious avocado is capable of over-ripening in a hour just to spite me.

The last two weeks on the island we have been indulgent in the avocado department. It’s the season and I’m sure sea levels have risen entirely due to the weight of them on the island. They are everywhere, stacked high on trestle tables by the side of the road, at roundabouts, fruit and veg stalls and advertised on hand written signs off the road “PEARS”. Who knew that there were so many varieties, the tougher skinned types are the ones most likely to survive export. These ones are green, thin skinned and let me tell you they are the best avocados we have ever eaten. Huge, creamy and delicious.

How can you beat this place to buy a pear? we broke into it last night ….

Pollards definitely needs an avocado tree or two, so I’ve started…..

Now there are two. We might have a bit of a wait ….. you have to start somewhere, in the meantime there is always avocado season to look forward to.