I planted some spinach and cilantro today in these small containers. I chose these two as others have grown them in the vertical planters. I’m not so sure about the cilantro because of the height of the mature plant, but others allege that they have done so successfully so I will try as well. The package claims 8 to 12 days until germination. So hopefully I will have completed all of the planters in time for them to be transplanted.
Finally today we were able to get the two ceiling fans in the main area of the house installed. It was no small task.
We needed to find four foot 3/4 inch pipe to use as an extension. Holes were drilled in them and then they were painted to match the fan. Then the wiring of the fans needed to be extended as the wires they came with where not near long enough.
The biggest challenge was finding a way to get to the ceiling. They are pretty high and no ladder we could find was tall enough. Fortunately, Gabriel has a construction crew with equipment at his house, so were able to borrow some scaffolding. Putting it together was a bit of a nightmare.
So now we have finished the most intimidating of tasks. All that is left is a little lanacaping in the back.
Despite numerous transplants, this tomato plant is still going strong. Recently I relocated it to the roof of our new house. I think the full Sun has done it well. Unfortunately, none of the other plants survived. I think this was mostly due to the small pots I was using and the delays in transplanting them to larger pots.
I bought a new ladder today. It’s been long overdue.
I have had Asael spend nearly the entire day installing a mesh outside to reduce the amount of sun we are getting inside. I was told the mesh blocks 80% of the sun. This should help quite a lot as we’ve aleady had 100+ days. I hope this will help reduce the electric bill too.
Yesterday was a productive day around the house. I was able to visit a number of hardware stores in the area and found all sort of treasure. One such treasure were these four inch PVC tubes that I had cut in length of 4 feet each. I’m going to cut 2 inch holes in them and use them as a vertical planter. I saw some YouTube videos where people have done this successfully and it looks pretty fun. My worker and friend Asael is going to help me with this project and especially with the automation of the irrigation.
We went out for hamburgers last night for our friend Monica’s birthday. There are not a lot of places here to get a good hamburger, but last night was an exception. Sadly, I lack restraint and therefore ate far too much. Even so, we had a good time and good food.
Yun and Dana stop for a foto outside of our favorite place for breakfast in town.
One of my tomato plants is substantially larger than the other two. Not yet figured out why that is the case as the conditions seem to be identical for each of them as they grew. I’ve transplanted it to larger pots as its grown so its not that it had more space than the others.
We traveled to Kino on Tuesday with Matt and Dana. A little windy, but really nice. They were able to experience the awesomeness of my jeep. Scout got a second visit to the beach in a week. He was pretty thrilled about that.
