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Prepping for Jambo/Okra

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:November 7, 2019
Post category:- Building Flora - Edibles

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…

Prepping the drip for the Palm Trees

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:October 27, 2019
Post category:- Building

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…

Prepping the Palm trees

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:October 26, 2019
Post category:- Building

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 😊

Maintaining the Aloe Field

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:October 26, 2019
Post category:- Building

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 ...…

Water Well

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:October 19, 2019
Post category:- Building

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…

Max rocks

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:October 12, 2019
Post category:- Building Flora

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…

More rainwater preparation

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:October 9, 2019
Post category:- Building

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…

Prepping for more rain …

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:October 9, 2019
Post category:- Building Uncategorized

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…

Preparing for more rain

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:September 30, 2019
Post category:- Building

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…

Aquaponics (update)

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:August 14, 2019
Post category:- Building

The airpump for the fish-tank of the aquaponics test system has been quite weak in blowing bubbles lately and yesterday morning I noticed that small mosquito larvi had invaded the…

Aloe field preparation

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:April 26, 2019
Post category:- Building Flora Memorable Pictures

There is some movement with the Aloe field Removed some Aloe plants from front entrance and looks like I have enough for the 1st section to be planted Max has…

Prepping Aloe field

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:April 14, 2019
Post category:- Building Memorable Pictures

This weekend I'll be prepping the Aloe field behind the observation deck Right now it is full of the Aruban "blad cactus" which has a lot of small and tenacious…

Preparing planters/plantenpotten

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:February 23, 2019
Post category:- Building

Here is Max helping me prepare some planterns (plantepotten) so we can start putting some kale, radishes, brussel sprouts and maybe some pumpkins We will do that in combination with…

Aquaponics material 😊

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:February 6, 2019
Post category:- Building

Just got a bunch of used 3/4" marine plywood that will be recycled for the aquaponics setup Have plenty seedlings that need growing space Will share plans shortly

New Birdpond

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:January 26, 2019
Post category:- Building - Fauna - Preservation Shoko Conservation Efforts

During the last dry season it seamed that the bird population really suffered due to lack of watering holes or spots. So based on some recommendations we build a small…

Future spot for our Comcomber Criollo’s

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:November 17, 2018
Post category:- Building Flora Flora - Edibles

This is the future spot for the Comcomber Criollo's, Jambo (Ookra), Brussel Sprouts, Radishes and Eggplants. Will be setting up an Aquaponic system at this location, right along the tranchi…

Deep water well?

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:July 28, 2018
Post category:- Building Memorable Pictures

Just met today with one of the experts at DLV, mr. Roberto Croes, regarding possible drilling of a deep water well. Since our water bill is very high, I need…

Max in action – helping to clean up

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:July 13, 2018
Post category:- Building Memorable Pictures

My son Max really likes to assist in the chores in the Cunucu. Here you can see him cutting down some cacti, but obviously it does not always work out…

Our Aquaponics test unit

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:July 12, 2018
Post category:- Building Flora - Edibles

The Tilapia's will be replaced soon with Guppies, due to the size of the holding tank.

Starting out with the Green Belles

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:March 30, 2018
Post category:- Building

We starting out with planting some green belles, in order to provide some wind protection for the rest of the corner garden We had Fantastic Garden build up an area…

Fixing the transhi

Post author:jacobo oduber
Post published:February 24, 2018
Post category:- Building Memorable Pictures

There was a lot of work involved in raising the transhi (stone wall), since some of that was thrown down by a twister many years ago. But Max, al on…