Ranch: Eastside Clean up progressing.

Been busy today with the on going clean up on the Eastside of my house. We did a lot in two days. Still a lot more to go. But it is one step at a time.

Arissa and I resumed our burning of yard debris. Yeah, I know we should compost but we have too much to compost. Yet, I still have to burn to smoke my mango trees to keep the insects away. We used the chainsaw to cut more unwanted brush and trees. It's looking a lot better.

That one planter that we were prepping yesterday. We added dried mango leaves to the rabbit manure layer, today. Then we wet it down again. I want the worms in the manure to stay healthy. Next, will be to add potting mix. I'll have to double check on the approve potting mix for organic production. We plan to grow red onions and garlic in that planter.

I had a source of compost to put into that planter. But it has been contaminated with other junk. That's what happens when family members think that compost pile is a trash can. They have no concept of composting. So I'll have to incinerate that compost pile soon.

We moved most of the pots away from the planter today. Not much growing in those pots, only weeds. We have a really old aluminum extension ladder that we acquired years ago in the '70's. I moved that away from the area and into the main ranch area and propped it up against a mango tree. I'm gonna use that for any vegetable vines that I'll grow.

Arissa and I collected some young coconut saplings, transferred and planted them along the street on the property line/border. I plan to plant more coconut saplings on another line inside the property line but staggered from the line closest to the road. These will be future live fence posts for livestock.

New Goal: Prep and plant one garden plot each week.


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Ranch: Cleaning Eastside of the House.

Catching up on my cleaning. I worked on the Eastside of the house today. Did a lot of burning. Have a big coconut stump to get rid of. I could compost it. But, I do have to smoke my mango tree daily to get rid of those pesky insects.

I cut down all the violet brushes on that side, pulling out some ornamental taro, and cleaned out one of the planters. My niece/god-daughter, Arissa helped me out. Lot of ranch training needed for that girl. Reminded me of when her brother, AJ, started working the ranch. We did okay. Still progressing forward.

New goal is to put up a new row of vegetables each weekend. That should get us ready year round. We do have Local Mangoes ready, harvested a couple and enjoyed eating each one. Waiting for my big Vietnamese Mango tree. Fruits are slowly getting big. That's going to be my daily breakfast.

I'll post pics of our on-going project later this week.



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