Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category

Tags: camo chicken tractor, carrots, Chickens, garden, pollitos

So apparently, I suck at growing carrots. This is what my carrots look like after being in the ground for over 6 months… The carrots I grew:

Tags: Landscaping

Our hibiscus are getting so big, it’s time to start using hedge clippers!!

Today was a great day. These three photos are from today. We have three mango trees planted on the property that may one day grow us delicious mangos like this one. The mature mango trees we have are all ‘con fibre’ which are really stringy. This will be the fourth pineapple we have grown in [...]

Tags: how to make jam, papaya, papaya jam, recipes, tropical fruit, yum

Apparently papaya is easy to grow because we have papaya trees popping up all over the property! Another nice thing about papaya is that they produce fruit very quickly. Where as citrus/avocado trees take several years to start producing fruit, papayas start producing fruit in a year or less. Unfortunately, I am not a big [...]

Tags: Compost, DIY, Food, fruit, garden, Gardening, Plants, vegetables, Yard

So, we’re not hippies, but we like to do things that are going to help our family sustain our lifestyle. My old polyester resin surfboards will out last Sydneys kids lives, I use red ant killer because those little bastards do no good at all and deserve to die a slow horrible death BUT we [...]

Tags: garden, pictures, trees, Yard

I don’t have to tell you guys that Summer and I are very into our landscaping and building not just our house, but creating a really cool tropical landscape. One of the things to deal with living in Puerto Rico are the termites. Termites are everywhere. Termites have eaten their way through gardening equipment handles, [...]

Tags: Banana, Food, garden, Gardening, Lettuce, Plants, Stefan, Summer, Tomatoes, Yard

Yeah, that’s right. We grow our own food! We have two main food sources from the property right now, the garden and our fruit trees. Our garden is doing really well and is starting to produce tomatoes, snow peas, cucumbers and spicy lettuce. We have some other stuff coming in too like jalapeno and habanero [...]

Tags: bell peppers, cucumber, edibles, garden, spicy lettuce, vegetables

What’s on the menu tonight? Well, spicy lettuce, green bell peppers and a cucumber may not sound that exciting to you, but these are all things that we are eating tonight that we grew in our garden! It’s so cool to finally be producing our own food since when we bought this property it was pretty barren (except for the salsa trees and pica pica).

Tags: Flowers, fruit, Gardening, Pineapple, Plants, sling, Sydney, Yard

I finished up work today around 5:00. We start Sydney’s dinner/bed routine at 6:00pm, so I was looking for the girls so we could get a solid evening hour of daddy time in before bed. We had a couple solid days of rain last week, but before that storm, we were without rain for about [...]

Tags: citrus, Gardening, Landscaping, pvc, Yard

We’ve planted several dozen (50ish) citrus, exotic fruit and avocado trees on our property, and while many of them are flourishing and doing well, unfortunately we keep losing trees to careless weedwackers. Recently we’ve lost a canepa, tangerine, kumquat and avocado in the battle that is maintaining our property. No bueno!! We made another trip [...]