Herbs #2

We started an herb garden in our back yard.  We purchased the concrete planter box and risers.  Rick hooked it up to our irrigation system. We moved our basil and thyme plants to the new planter. As we find plants or grow them we will add to our garden. Since we have a year-round growing season, we can start plants anytime.

We planted cilantro.  The climate is so hot and the sun is so bright that the cilantro just melted.  Rick rigged-up a sun shade. It's not pretty but it does the trick. 

The rosemary that we tried to root, died.  We will try again but are not hopeful of any success. We may have to import a plant.

We also wanted to grow tomatoes.  We eat a lot of tomatoes. We could save big bucks if we grew our own...Ha! There are no starter tomato plants on the island so we have to grow them from seed. We are going to use a package of tomato seeds and also harvest seeds from the tomatoes we purchase at the grocery store.  Hopefully, one of them will germinate. Stay tuned for an update

We toured a little Bonaire museum today.  They grow all sorts of native and imported edible plants. The curator gave us three cuttings of Cuban oregano. Rick is partial to Mexican oregano but it is not available on the island.  So we have to improvise.