Posts Tagged ‘fruit’

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: 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: 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 [...]

Tags: fruit, Landscaping, Rincon, seed, sprout, Sydney, tree

While Robin (my mom) was in Puerto Rico, waiting for Sydney to arrive, we visited our neighbors pina mango tree and had ourselves some delicious pina mango goodness. While cleaning up, we were commenting on what large seeds pina mangos have and Stefan got the bright idea to try and grow our own pina mango [...]