Yellow Heirloom Eggplants
These beautiful eggplants are an heirloom species from seeds bought in the U.S. and are about the size of a baseball. They grew easily in bags and have been moved into well-composted soil in full sun during the hot dry season, and are producing well.
Favorite Things
These are some of our favorite sites around Costa Rica and beyond. Costa Rica Gardening / Plants Ark Herb Farm – Located on the slopes of the Poas volcano, roughly north of San Jose in the mountains, the Ark Herb Farm is an “Ethno Botanical Garden” and has a huge variety (more than 300 types) […]
Small Caterpillar who eats our greens
What is this bug and what do we do about it? If you recognize it, and have an organic solution, please help us out. We’ve been spraying our plants with a powdered mix of chili peppers and garlic, but this bug seems to be pretty resistant to it. We don’t have a lot of […]
Coming Soon – The Tilapia Pools
Today we are digging the first tilapia pond, with the goal of growing many of the fish we eat at Anamaya. We will feed them kitchen scraps, and they will also eat the algae that forms in the pool. If need be, we’ll also grow or buy corn for them.
Watermelon (Sandia)
This huge watermelon was super sweet and tasty, and grew from a vine that we didn’t plant. The seed was leftover in the dirt from watermelons planted last season, and those were from a watermelon taken from a vine we found randomly growing on the farm. Whatever species it is, obviously it likes our soil, […]
Jalapeño
Jalapeños grow easily here since peppers are native to Central America. If we can grow enough of them, and garlic too, then we can eventually produce our own bug repellent by combining them, rather than buying it in powder form as we do now.
The Legendary Double Egg – Photographic Proof!
Black Betty, our first chicken, rewarded Rancho Delicioso for saving her by producing for us the legendary “double egg” which is like two eggs fused together, and it even has two separate yolks inside! Here are some photos of it, compared with a regular egg, and what it looked fried. It seemed tragic to […]
Wild Cilantro (Culantro Silvestre)
Culantro, as it’s called in Spanish grows wild here like a dandelion, but without the flower. Many people have it growing around their houses. The leaves are broad and serrated, a bit sharp even, and they’re much thicker than the cilantro we’re used to buying in the stores, but it tastes identical. Because it’s […]
Heirloom Eggplants
These beautiful eggplants are our first ones besides the long yellow ones. They are small now, around 2 1/2 inches, but growing quickly, and we’re excited to see how big they get, and how many each bush will produce. We started them in the shade house in medium-sized bags but have moved them outside into […]
Yellow Eggplant (Berenjena)
The yellow banana-like eggplants shown here grow very easily on meter-high bushes the continue to produce for many months. They have grown well in medium-quality soil with almost no care, out in the open. We have replanted the seeds with some success. Most of them will sprout but many die off. This eggplant is […]
