This Is REALLY Where It’s at!!

This Is REALLY Where It’s at!!

I hope I have your attention! I know the blog has faltered, and there is no excuse except that we have had some success of recent that has kept my writing hand stilled. But once I saw this new listing of only 4 lots left and, more importantly, the concept behind the community, I stopped everything, took out the old feather, and dipped it in the ink bottle (hope that comment didn’t lose some of our youngsters!). I was out Naranjo way, which is a quick 9 kilometers (about 7 miles) further up the road from Grecia, to look at lots in a gated community, which by my nature is not a turn on. But in this case, it was a REAL turn on because the concept they are reaching for is total self-subsistence to include medical, assisted living, power, water, AND FOOD!!

Grecia is and always has been a Mecca for an abundance of fresh vegetables at the local market, which is held weekly now on Friday and Saturday (previously only on Saturday), and this new concept of “growing your own” has really caught my eye. Up until last week, Cheryl had a very nice garden going with loads of strawberries, sweet potatoes, chiles, tomatoes, peppers, herbs of all kinds, and on and on. Unfortunately, we are starting all over because our gardener failed to dilute a pesticide, and it’s all gone now. Anyway, we have calciumed, peat mossed, and perlited the heck out of the soil and are ready to begin again, but THIS time we will do it inside and the gardener will not have a key!!

We plan to be the Grecia pioneers of the new system of Verti-Gro, which is illustrated in the pictures to show how you can produce 5 times as much in 1/6 the space and 1/3 the time. It gives you the capacity of growing tomatoes, grape tomatoes (my fav), string beans, strawberries, lettuce, cantaloupe, zucchini, and way more in a very small space and year round. Looking at the pictures, we can only have about one fourth the space for our garden, but still we are excited about the self-subsistence available in this system. And yes, they provide systems of different sizes based on your family size and land availability. And if you would like to buy one of the remaining four lots to build your dream house on, you get free veggies as part of the community. Call us at CostaRicaLandToday.com for more information.

Glenn Ekblom was our guide and knower of all things Verti-Gro and coincidentally has the dealership exclusive for Central and South America. And yes, he IS willing to help his customers get off the ground – pun intended!

The steps, as you can see in the pics, are to first start your seeds in plugs and then transfer them to the inside for the vertical growing and environmental control. They are growing lettuce in tables of red rock outside just as an experiment (yes, red rock only) and producing more than a hundred heads in a month’s time, so you can get the jest of production time, quality, and quantity.

A quick look at how the pots stack up on the poles illustrates how the volume of veggies is multiplied so many times as the veggies grow out of the four corners of each pot on each level. How cool is that?

The watering system is quite simple to operate through soaker hoses that have controls at one end of the greenhouse. It comes in two systems, the greenhouse and the watering/fertilizing system.

So when you purchase one of the lots in the community, you are set to go with all this already up and running. Or you can buy from any number of lots through CostaRicaLandToday.com and have your very own system installed in the local Grecia community.

Please call us at CostaRicaLandToday.com for any questions. Contact us if you would like a personal tour of this fantastic gardening system for your new or recently built home or if you would like to see your community get into a self-subsistence of vegetable growth!!