The garden is still growing lots of food, and as plants are spent out, we replace them with others. Thus old squash and cucumber plants are pulled out. Once the ground has been rejuvenated with tilled in compost, it is replanted. Out goes the old bean plants. Out goes the old tomatoes plants. In goes baby chard, beets, lettuce, and all sorts of other plants that we grew in the hoophouse. Some things we direct seed, so in goes daikon, peas, beans, onions. It's a marvelous cycle to see and be part of!
The pipinola we planted is starting to vine. It is time to train them to the trellises. The jicama plants are climbing up their trellises and are now blooming lovely light blue flowers. Long seed pods follow the died flowers, thus growing seeds for the next crop. By the way, jicama seeds are not edible... toxic. But the tubers are great to eat.
We are experimenting with tomato tip cuttings. We know that we can produce new plants this way, but it the time of the year that we are experimenting with. It is November, a time that tomato plants usually start to mature and die off. But we are going to start the tip cuttings and see what happens.
Winter is a great time for brassicas.... cauliflower, kale, cabbage, broccoli, etc. So we have started seeds and look forward to baby plants.
We are experimenting with growing onions and leeks from seed. This week we planted out our first plants that we produced ourselves! We are soooo proud.
Our chicken pen is basically completed. Just need to finish up the final touches. So the hens have arrived and are quite comfy in their new digs. We will be keeping them in the pen for a while so that they can imprint on this location. Then we will start letting them out to do bug control. They will need to return to the safety of their pen when we are not here to keep an eye on them. There are too many predators around that would love to kill chickens: loose dogs, mongooses, Hawaiian hawks (called and I'o).
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