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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 [...]

Okay, I admit it, I’m a bit picky when it comes to eating. It’s not that I’m afraid to try new foods, or anything like that, I just like to eat healthy, fresh food. Maybe it’s because I was raised by crazy hippies, but I’m just not a fan of most fast food or fried [...]

Summer and I have been on a domestic tare lately. We’ve been cooking dinner and having leftovers at the house at least 5 days/nights a week. To change up our new ‘routine’ we decided to do some baking (as you can see by our christmas cookies). I came up with the idea of making some [...]

As you can see by Garden 2.0, Summer and I are working on our computers by night and planning/building a healthier lifestyle/diet with our renewed vigor towards gardening by day. With that, we are definitely going to try to grow cucumbers. I see them all over the grocery store year around, so they must do [...]

Stefan and I sort of gave up on the watermelon plants that Eddie planted for us 5 months ago. They sprouted and shriveled enough times that we gave up watering them and let them do their own thing (like get overgrown with weeds…). Lo and behold, a watermelon (sandia) has appeared! I wonder if it’s [...]

The edamame (soy beans) that I planted are doing really well! Lots of pods are hanging off of the little bushes now and they are extremely low maintenance. Conclusion: Edamame (soy) beans are easy to grow in Puerto Rico! I am still patiently waiting for the heirloom tomatoes to give us some treats, but they [...]