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…
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 😊
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 ...…
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…
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…
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…
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…
These walls used to hold some water about 30+ years ago, but have deteriorated considerably over the years.
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Lemon/Lime tree is doing very good and looks like we are finally getting a nice harvest of lemons :-)