Babbette and Missy dove right in, organizing the work details. With a jobs list being posted each week, allowing for volunteers to pick a job to focus upon. This new system seems to work for us.
So even with a small crew (many of the volunteers are out of town) we got plenty of things done. Wow, marvelous, isn't it!
Meliha jumped right in to harvesting, tackling the rampant pipinola. She found lots and lots. Those few vines seem to really like growing here. Harvest today also included peppers, bok choy, yacon. Volunteers helped themselves to bananas, oranges, herbs, and assorted greens. And sharing included limes, lemons, and grapefruits. Plus little bits of this and that were harvested for lunch -- green beans, yard long beans, beets.
Our supply of seedlings and plants is in dire need of replenishing. Today a number of trays got sown and many cuttings made their way into pots. Plus we had more pineapple tops donated to us for adding to our pineapple patch. Alice seems to have flowed into the post of Pineapple Mama, so we tend to bring it to her attention whenever more starts arrive.
The tabletop garden needed weeding and replanting again, so Sharon patiently separated the wee tiny arugula seedlings, carefully planting each one. Within 2-3 weeks we'll be able to start eating the thinnings. It grows fast!
The first keyhole garden has taken root and is looking good.
The second keyhole got tramped down well and to our surprise had composted down over a foot. That's more than we had anticipated. So volunteers gathered more weeds and garden castoffs to refill the keyhole garden. Now we are hoping that this will be the last refilling. We're getting impatient to plant this garden with tomatoes. Oh, we are so looking forward to tomatoes!
The main garden is getting organized. More white pipe has been laid out, delineating the aisleways. It's getting easier to see where the garden beds are. Plus we can now better see which areas will be prepared for the seed potatoes and onion plants when they arrive.
It's been raining lightly just about every day. This is resulting in some rot and fungus problems. It also means that we cannot effectively keep things sprayed with dipel to control caterpillars. Since today was dry, Sue gave everything a dipel spray, hoping for the best. The fruit fly feeding stations also got recharged since the male traps are indicating that we still have a very active population.
Rain is making the grass grow.....moan, moan. And with the grass being constantly wet, we can't get it mowed this past week. Thus we are hoping for at least two dry days this coming week. Wish us luck.
Lunch:
Local pork and Hamakua Springs mushrooms
Brown rice
Steamed beets from the garden with a little coconut oil
Sautéed green beans and yard long beans
Pipinola in homemade marinara sauce
Norman's dark chocolate devils food cake
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