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what we are doing in the Bolivar Garden and Agricultural Plant Science.

Phase four – roof structure

Once posts were in place and checked, Gustavo Ledesma, myself and a couple of BGVs set about the task of putting up our roof, made of PVC! This was completed in one Saturday morning.  Placing of the...

Phase three – checking posts and levelling

With the posts in place and the majority of the terrace levelled, Diego Arias and Carlos Castillo checked that all was going well.  When all posts were securely put in place, a friend of the garden...

Phase two – levelling the terrace and digging post holes

We are now ready to level the terrace and begin the process of putting posts into place. We are planning on using 18 plastic posts, digging holes and securing them with cement. This process was helped...

Phase one – breaking down the terrace wall

In order to re-build the terrace we first had to breakdown what we already had. That meant dismantling the existing rock wall, weeding by digging weeds into the earth and levelling the terrace. This...

What the weather station measures and what it means

Our Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station has a suite of sensors that are used to measure and calculate a variety of climate data. The sensors incorporated into the weather station are as follows: UV...

How to connect to the weather station and get climate data

We now have a really expensive and highly technological piece of equipment at the school – our Davis Vantage Pro 2 Weather Station. In this post I am going to inform you about the weather...

Greenhouse maintenance, upkeep and a new sign for the garden

The greenhouse has been used to produce a good number of herbs, sage, basil, ponte alerio, fruit, tomatoes, and vegetables, maize, radishes and garlic chives, but has been shadowed by tree growth and...

Cacao planting finished and a visit from Drs Ospina and Vaast

During the last class of the week the agric students and I mananged to finish the planting of the 64 cacao trees in the plot! After 190 hours of human endeavour, from reassigning holes, mixing soil...

Colegio Bolivar 5K Verde Race

A wet day was expected for this years 5K race –  we have a weather station and can predict the weather! We had a stand offering Don Simón Coffee to participants which went down really well...
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