Greenhouse .... We have a church bazaar coming up (we sell plants there) so we needed to get seeds planted and cuttings potted. Missy was great and spent the day seeding and potting. We've got a nice variety of seeds in so now we pray for warm weather. One never knows when it comes to the weather, even here in Hawaii.
Tabletop and keyhole update..... Alice got the rest of the bok choy was harvested and the tabletop weeded. And we've got itty bitty baby carrot plants! Cute when they're this small. Arugula has been transplanted into the tabletop. As for the keyholes, nothing planted today but keyhole #2 had more biomaterial added.
Main garden .... Many seedlings got transplanted out into empty spaces. Sharon and Connie opened up a nice area for peas, erecting a trellis and all. A bit of an experiment is being conducted with one half of the pea planting having been dressed with compost.
Another section of the old sweet potato bed got dug, grass and rocks removed. Not many tatters, but we expected that.
The pineapple patch is growing nicely. The early plants are getting large and look robust. We keep adding a few more tops each week, so the plants range from tiny, newly planted to large, well established. This hopefully will translate into a staggered pineapple crop.
Checking the fruit for traps, we saw that the lures were still working. The traps had lots of male fruit flies in them, which is both good and bad news. Good - the traps are working. Bad - there's an awful lot of flies around. So the other feeding baited traps were renewed to help get a handle on this fruit fly problem.
(Photo: looking down on the trap and up close, you can see several newly trapped males crawling on the inside of the trap while dozens and dozens in dead males lay on the bottom.)
The orange tree is covered in oranges, but regretfully many are very high up. We get what we can.
A nice bunch of bananas were harvested. Still green, but they ripen up with time. They are now protected from rats and birds up at the clubhouse.
The avocado tree by the clubhouse is starting to produce. We harvested 2 and there are more just about ready. It's a tall tree so most of the harvest will be from drops because we can't reach them. Last year the avocados were watery and disappointing. Possibly this year they will be better? Last year we couldn't market them because the competition's avos were much better quality. We shall see what happens this year. It's a shame that the chickens don't like them, otherwise they would be a great source of food for the hens.
The kale, as usual, is growing well. We eat this every week. The chard is doing fine too. And we won't even mention the pipinola! Boy, that's one crop that keeps going and going and going! The daikon was a failure. Some sort of root maggot got into them. We tried allowing the grass to protect them but the moth/fly (or whatever) still found them. I guess we'll have to give daikon and radishes a rest until the root maggot goes elsewhere looking for a meal. The beans are being attacked by aphids, so they got a bath in safer soap.
Babbette is posting a work list for us each week now. This is greatly helping us to stay organized and focused. Otherwise we tend to go helterskelter.
Our future focus will be on getting ready for the anticipated arrival of the seed potatoes and onion seedlings.
Lunch:
Chicken soup (yes, our own chicken, veggies, and herbs were in it)
Purple sweet potatoes with fresh coconut and fresh pineapple
Sautéed green beans and yacon
Stir fry veggie medley
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