Archive for the ‘Plants’ Category

The noni fruit grows really well here in Puerto Rico and has been touted as an amazing antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immune system booster and all-around good for you food. The only problem? It tastes/smells even more disgusting then it looks… The noni that I picked from our tree today: Just smelling a ripe noni makes me [...]

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, fruit, grafted, papaya, Sydney, trees

It has been really dry in Rincon for the past month. Up until the past two or three days (windy/drizzle), we haven’t had a drop of rain in over 3 weeks. These pictures are all at least two weeks old, so there is still some ‘green’ in the background, but as of yesterday, we’re talking [...]

Tags: Plants, sling, Sydney

We’ve been really tied up with the baby, work and the usual life stuff…but Sydney wanted to say HOLA! Does anyone know what kind of plant this is that Sydney and Summer and standing next to? It is really cool looking, almost prehistoric. Is this the plant that killed off the dinosaurs?

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 [...]

Seriously, our garden is the bomb. Of course, I say this regardless of the fact that we don’t have any plants in it yet. We have a bunch of tomatoes popping through the beautiful soil, some lettuce and sugar snap peas. We are still waiting on our other little seeds to show their little sprouts. [...]

I was taking a little stroll around the property and happen to walk by the pineapple plants we planted, and…well, LOOK!! Hay un pina!! Yay! I’m so excited about this! Every time we eat a pineapple, we have been planting the tops around the property in hopes of growing our own pineapples. I used to [...]

After 18 months of hard work plating and grooming fruit trees on our Puerto Rico property, we scored some delicious papaya.