Posts Tagged ‘Yard’

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: 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 [...]