Dave...when we placed concrete for the pen area it is 4" lower so the plan is to fill that with rice hulls to deal with the droppings. It will...
Thanks Dave...I hadn't really considered airflow as I figured with the normal breezes and the top being just net would be fine to keep the future...
The raised beds are about done, some cosmetic work left. Some plants were transplanted and a number of seeds direct sown. Most of the plants in...
Sorry for the late reply...deployed to Puerto Rico and getting things rolling on this project. So far, loving the island and project. The nipa...
I love what you are doing, you definitely owe us some posts and pics! Succession planting is the way to go for the seasonal crops. Peppers don't...
The wife has quite a number of rose bushes in her ornamental raised beds in the front yard and they are doing quite well. The only thing I know...
I agree that the seed flats take a bit more maintenance in a tropical environment compared to starting seeds indoors when you have 4 seasons (we...
Great advice...I had some Korean melon seeds that fresh out of the pack did very well, next time home, the seed pack we just had curled up the end...
Basically 8 days now and have pretty good germination so far. Obviously peppers and tomatoes take a bit longer than some others we started (and...
Cool, seems we have a bit in common. Shawn
Well...over the past decade+ I've posted about seeds on this forum that I brought back from Turkmenistan, Korea, Singapore and the US so broke...
The old compactor we purchased like 6 or so years ago saw some heavy use and then sporadic use afterwards. As we all know, the weather here does...
The customs forms I've filled out mention live plants and meat, not seeds. I could be wrong as I've never thought to research it beyond what is...
The seed flats are definitely small and will probably require replanting, unfortunately when we went looking that was what we found. Do like the...
Agree, they are clever to brand things with names that are in English which you could assume are not from China. I'm not one to go onto a public...
The wife pulled the workers for a bit to do some cleaning and fertilizing of one of her sugarcane fields. We have gotten a little bit of work...
We started a bunch of seeds last night. One of the seed flats (104 cells) is just cactus, I harvested those seeds when I was in Arizona. I only...
The wife and myself had lunch at Zak's place on Saturday. I'm American and the only other time I've had British fish and chips was a number of...
I actual got a "trolling" rating on a post that I was the OP on...never can tell on a forum...
The railing is coming together and the stairs are in, laying out for the hand rail. We had a older carpenter who laid out the stairs; he was...
