Archive for the ‘Yard’ Category

Tags: Chicken Coop, chicken tractor, Chickens, DIY, eggs

I built a chicken tractor! I bet you are probably thinking: “What in the heck is chicken tractor?!”. So before your mind starts wandering to visions of a chicken-sized farm vehicle and our chickens driving it around the property going about hilarious adventures, a “chicken tractor” is really just a portable, floorless chicken coop. I [...]

Tags: french peanut, nuts, Pachira Glabra, tropical plants

When we bought our house in Rincon, Puerto Rico, one of the first things we started doing was planting trees. Before we even had electricity or running water, Stefan and I were swinging the pickaxe in the yard and planting all the trees we could get our hands on! Now that a few years have [...]

Tags: bad bugs, beetles, palm killer, palm trees, root borer

Within the last few months we have noticed that some of our thriving palms tree have suddenly died for no apparent reason. We initially blamed it on the ants, since we found a large ant pile around the base of one of the palms that died, but then we kept losing palm after palm and [...]

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 [...]

Tags: Food, fruit, Gardening, trees, vegetables, Yard

Right before we left for our two month excursion to California & New Jersey, I was walking around our property checking out the plants. One of the first things that we planted were a few little banana trees and they have gotten quite large. Since they havn’t produced any fruit, I was wondering if perhaps [...]

Summer and I started Garden 2.0 back in July of 2008. If you check out the pictures, you’ll see that we built a raised planter with rocks and back filled it with a mixture of dirt from the driveway and top soil. Below the soil we brought in is mostly rock. Not much dirt to [...]

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 [...]

When we bought our house in Rincon, the real estate agent told us that there were mature avocado trees on the property. Since we had not seen any avocados in the past year and a half, we assumed that the “avocado” trees were either not avocado trees, or they were male (not fruit producing). Well, [...]