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pacha mona, tropical organic garden
http://ancel-puravida.blogspot.com/
- Author: ancel
- Listed in: Gardening Green
- Tags: Costa Rica sustainable living Green Living organic gardening eco-aware tropical living
- Added on: Mar 29th, 2008
- Country: Costa Rica
- Language: English
Organic gardening on the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, enjoying the wildlife and crazy number of things that fly and munch.
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Green Banana Curry
Green, or unripe, bananas can be used as a vegetable, just like plantain. Watch out for juice from their skins, it will stain! Or you could do like the locals and clean your hands with petrol afterwards. Ingredients:A dozen firm green bananas, or 8 p...
snake in the bathroom
There’s a snake in the bathroom, what are you gonna do there’s a snake in the bathroom has it come for you? No, it came for the toads. It gave me a fright though, turning on the light and seeing a bright red snake with a black head and a yellow b...
Mr. Hansel pays a visit
George came over this afternoon. He’s been threatening to for months and today finally made it with a bottle of homebrew, 3 giant avocadoes from his tree and an apple, “to sweeten your mouth”. He filled the afternoon with stories and gardenin...
weed whacker
I did it, I finally bought a weed whacker. There’s a lot of lawn in the garden, despite our efforts to lay beds and plant things, there’s a lot of grass. We have a ‘gardener’, a very lovely 19 year old indigenous 7th day Adventist. But he wor...
variation on 'unclean' women (see next post), or planting with the moon
I was telling Moreno, the local purveyor of all things good including information, stories and intelligent conversation, of my consistent inability to grow a certain plant. He asked me when I was sowing the seeds. I told him I’ve tried at the new m...
