This mornings harvest
Just cleaned up the weeds between the cucumber plants and picked some cucumbers right away. Already have most of the ingredients for a nice local "comcomber stoba" Yumie yumie ...…
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This mornings harvest
Great Egret/Garsa blanco Grandi (Ardea Alba)
Driving up the house this morning, I saw a "Great Egret" between the plants in the yard. Since I got too close with the car, it flew away a few…
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Great Egret/Garsa blanco Grandi (Ardea Alba)
Burros …
Was a nice sight last friday when Max and I saw 3 burrows mosying on down the side of the road and heading up the Kristal Berg. Reminds me when…
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Burros …
Todays cucumber harvest
Together with Max this morning we picked some fresh cucumbers from the yard and will prepare a nice stew for lunch. Yummie yummie .. Looks like we will be having…
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Todays cucumber harvest
Stewed Cucumbers/Comcomber Stoba
Had some stewed cucumbers yesterday and today from the yard and it was delicious. Quick recipe for the stewed Cucumbers: Ingredients: Cucumbers, turkey sausage, chicken strips (cutlet), onions, tomato paste,…
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Stewed Cucumbers/Comcomber Stoba
Dutch Caribbean Biodiversity Database
Dutch Caribbean Biodiversity Database | Central repository for biodiversity related research and monitoring data from the Dutch Caribbean The link below provides a site with various books and other nice…
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Dutch Caribbean Biodiversity Database
Adding to our Aquaponics
In continuance to our research of what grows or does not do well with the aquaponics, I Just added a celery to our aquaponics unit this morning. We'll check up…
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Adding to our Aquaponics
Pickled Cucumbers/Comcomber tempera
This evening I had my first try at making some pickled cucumbers, locally known as Comcomber (criojo) tempera. I chose to do it the European way, by adding sugar to…
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Pickled Cucumbers/Comcomber tempera
Cucumber (Comcomber Chines) harvest
Spent some time this morning picking up some naturally grown, pesticide free, fresh cucumbers. There were still quite a few left, but I picked what we can use for the…
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Cucumber (Comcomber Chines) harvest
Prepping for Jambo/Okra
Over the weekend we prepped a new area for the Okra (locally known as Jamboo) I also placed the okra seeds to germinate, so we can place these in their…
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Prepping for Jambo/Okra
More ant problems??
Woke up this morning and noticed the the Bouganvilles had quite some damage on them. Went out about 3am to check if ants were attacking the leaves but nothing sighted.…
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More ant problems??
Comcomber Criollo
Looks like we are getting a nice harvest of Comcomber Criollo (local cucumbers) The plants are full of flowers and we are making more space for the cucumber plants to…
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Comcomber Criollo
Prepping the drip for the Palm Trees
Now that the Palm trees (large and small) have their definite location, it's time to place the drip system for them. First thing is to dig a trench just next…
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Prepping the drip for the Palm Trees
Prepping the Palm trees
Expanding our palmtrees on the property with another 3 palm trees. The previous palmtrees we planted are doing good and looks like we now have about 24 palmtrees 😊
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Prepping the Palm trees
Maintaining the Aloe Field
From this, where you could barely see the Aloe plants ... The weeds have really overgrowing the Aloe field, so had to do some trimming and cleaning To this ...…
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Maintaining the Aloe Field
Medicinal Plants of Aruba
The pdf file attached shows some information provided by Santa Rosa during a recent exposition. It provides information about the Aloe Vera, Cuco (Agave vivipara), Malohi (Cymbopogon Citratus), Merengue (Moringa…
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Medicinal Plants of Aruba
Research Project Aruban Flora
Talking with Olinda, she stated that they are working on the researching and publishing more details of the Flora of Aruba Since this is very close to what one of…
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Research Project Aruban Flora
Aloe Drink
Cut up a fresh leave of Aloe and blend about 1/3 cup of the inside clear Aloe gel in a blender. Add some "noodmuskaat", Honey and maybe some Water to…
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Aloe Drink
Apple Cider …
Talked extensively yesterday with Olinda Rasmijn about various topics, and one of them was the large Army Ants or "Bachaca's" as they are known locally These critters have been creating…
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Apple Cider …
Old Water Dam walls
These walls used to hold some water about 30+ years ago, but have deteriorated considerably over the years.
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Old Water Dam walls
Bugs or Ants?
Been having lots of troubles with what I believe might be the Giant Ants. They have been attacking the plants at night time and really creating havoc. Our Lemon/Lime tree…
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Bugs or Ants?
Comcomber Criollo
The cucumber plants are doing fantastic and I need to make additional space for it on just about a daily basis. At least no problems with bugs on these plants
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Comcomber Criollo
Water Well
Following up on our longtime wish to put a water well on the property we had a visit this week by an engineer and reviewed the situation. It will be…
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Water Well
Sea Grapes
There is some hope after all These Sea Grapes were planted on March 30, 2018, by the North Eastern tip of the property, just adjacent to where we are planning…
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Sea Grapes
Max rocks
So Max this morning picked up some fairly heavy rocks and built a small holding wall around the coconut tree, where the rainwater has taken the little retainer wall about…
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Max rocks
Getting ready to plant some more Aloe
Here are some of the Aloe plants that I am relocating. Saw a bird nest in one of the Aloe bunches, so left these to be relocated untill after nesting…
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Getting ready to plant some more Aloe
Rainy night, all well
So we again had a rainy few hours last night and all the ground prep work paid off. Runoff damage is finally under control, after investing in many hours of…
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Rainy night, all well
Giant Bringsmosa/Poison Ivy
Walking the yard, I saw the Bringamosa bush grew tremendously. It must measure about 2 1/2m wide and about 1m high Will definitely put up a warning sign, for those…
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Giant Bringsmosa/Poison Ivy
More rainwater preparation
After another strong downpour this morning, i noticed that we still had some areas that were not channeling the rain water properly. So in between rain showers, of I went…
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More rainwater preparation
Prepping for more rain …
Did some additional prep work to avoid rain water run-off close to the Aloe fields. Hopefully this will hold of the excess rain water a little and channel it to…
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Prepping for more rain …
The joys of tending Nature & Fauna …
While caring for the plants this morning, saw this beautiful Monarch butterfly feasting on the lime/lemon tree flowers Can't wait to start taking pictures with a better camera of these…
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The joys of tending Nature & Fauna …
Lemons/Limes/Mint & Bees ….
This morning I looked at the status of the lemon/lime plant in the rock garden, which is finally in full bloom. After feeding it for weeks with different specialty vitamins…
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Lemons/Limes/Mint & Bees ….
Busy fixing rain damage
Besides working on the plants, talking extensively with Olinda Rasmijn regarding my failure in getting the Brasil seedlings going, i been busy fixing all the rain water damage from last…
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Busy fixing rain damage
Mint in vertical growing planters
The mint in the aquaponics has been growing very good as shown in picture below So I am trying to see if We can get the same vigorous growth of…
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Mint in vertical growing planters
Limes and Lemons coming up
The Lemon/Lime tree is doing very good and looks like we are finally getting a nice harvest of lemons :-)
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Limes and Lemons coming up
Preparing for more rain
We had quite some water/rain damage last monday morning when it rained about 6cm in less than 1 hour. Lots of sand washed away. So we build some new retainer…
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Preparing for more rain
Hopi awasero
Experienced 5cm (2") of rain this morning in only 1 hour 😳. Still accessing the damage.
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Hopi awasero