When we first moved into the house, there wasn’t any type of vegetation in our front yard. Check out this post from August of 2007, it shows our Rincon PR property completely baron. No plants in the front yard, just dirt and rocks.

In the past 6 months we have been slowly getting fruit from the trees we planted. Nothing that will feed the neighborhood (aside from the big ‘ole mango con fibre trees in the back yard) but we have scored some starfruit, peanut butter fruit, a couple small citrus fruit and a bunch of vegetables. So far, our biggest score, as far as mature fruit goes, has been a papaya tree that we didn’t even plant. It grew from seeds we threw off the back porch. We weren’t watering it or trimming it, the only thing we did was not cut it down by accident on one of my monthly (during the rainy season) 30 hour property clearing sessions.

Our papaya tree produced a great papaya last month (just one) and another one about two weeks ago…but the rats/birds go to that one before us. Yesterday, I cruised down to check out the tree with my morning coffee and there was a big beautiful papaya waiting for me to pluck it from the tree…so I did. I am going to give it another day or two to yellow out some more, and then we are going to eat it!

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