http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/it%e2%80%99s-a-tropical-affair-gardening-belize-style/ Featuring Vegetable Gardening Tips, Organic Growing Techniques, and Unique Plants for the Backyard Gardener Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:10:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/it%e2%80%99s-a-tropical-affair-gardening-belize-style/#comment-100314 Barbara Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:15:30 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/?p=1323#comment-100314 To Minki: We are certainly aiming for self-sufficiency. No, the gray water is not filtered. We do not particularly like the breadfruit, although the tree is marvellous, we heard the jackfruit's taste is similar to the breadfruit. So, not considering it but thanks. As to the leafcutter ants... it is a never-ending saga, the jackbean planting around the citrus trees only helped to a certain degree. Any hints/tips/advice/help? To Hetta: Yes, the sunflowers did get a few hours of shade a day, I'll try the rest of the seeds in full sun... which can be real fierce here. The Ceiba tree is truly magnificent, so huge. When it blossoms, the flowers are so high one cannot see them but the tree is visited by bees and wasps which make the tree sound as if it is humming. Gorgeous! To Minki: We are certainly aiming for self-sufficiency. No, the gray water is not filtered. We do not particularly like the breadfruit, although the tree is marvellous, we heard the jackfruit’s taste is similar to the breadfruit. So, not considering it but thanks. As to the leafcutter ants… it is a never-ending saga, the jackbean planting around the citrus trees only helped to a certain degree. Any hints/tips/advice/help?
To Hetta: Yes, the sunflowers did get a few hours of shade a day, I’ll try the rest of the seeds in full sun… which can be real fierce here. The Ceiba tree is truly magnificent, so huge. When it blossoms, the flowers are so high one cannot see them but the tree is visited by bees and wasps which make the tree sound as if it is humming. Gorgeous!

]]> http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/it%e2%80%99s-a-tropical-affair-gardening-belize-style/#comment-99550 hetta Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:56:22 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/?p=1323#comment-99550 Maybe you did not plant the sunflowers fully in the sun? Or overwatered them? But tell me please, why a humming Ceiba tree? I am so very curious. Maybe you did not plant the sunflowers fully in the sun? Or overwatered them? But tell me please, why a humming Ceiba tree? I am so very curious.

]]> http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/it%e2%80%99s-a-tropical-affair-gardening-belize-style/#comment-97063 Minki Fri, 29 May 2009 17:24:21 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/?p=1323#comment-97063 What a diversity of fruit trees! It sounds like self-sufficiency gardening. But it is very difficult keeping things alive when it is so dry. Is the gray water filtered first? Get a Jackfruit tree, the fruit is very large and it ought to grow there. It will be interesting to have updates on the leafcutter ants situation! What a diversity of fruit trees! It sounds like self-sufficiency gardening. But it is very difficult keeping things alive when it is so dry. Is the gray water filtered first? Get a Jackfruit tree, the fruit is very large and it ought to grow there. It will be interesting to have updates on the leafcutter ants situation!

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