I've said before that San Diego has three seasons: rainy, fog and fire. The rainy season usually lasts from November through about April. Fog season is May and June, called May Gray and June Gloom, and fire season, our least favorite season, is the months of August, September and October.
There is another season here, though, that's my favorite: avocado season.
I love avocados almost as much as I love potatoes. Sometimes more, and that's saying something.
Unfortunately, avocados require quite a bit of water and the prolonged California drought has taken a heavy toll on them. A friend who owns an avocado grove told us last year that they had to "stump out" half their trees to cut down on their water usage. Another friend who has one tree says his tree's productivity is way down this year. That may be due to the drought, or it might be that the tree is just going through a cycle of low productivity.
But the good news is that the avocados the trees are producing are still big and luscious and wonderful. Yum.
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