Early In July - The Garden is Hopping

We planted the first completed pallet box with sweet potato cuttings. They all survived and are thriving. We have our second box ready for planting with another sweet potato variety. And in the next couple weeks will be assembling and filling three more boxes. All the weeds, paper plates from lunches, and other organic materials goes into the boxes. Things like chicken pen litter, rabbit manure, excess grass clippings. 

Doug has been busily working on our future carrot bed. He's been digging out the rocks. 

In the foreground you can see a super jumbo rock he found. We also discovered a concrete foundation crossing the bed. A remnant of times of yore when this land once was part of Kahuku Ranch. Neighborhood mumblings say that this land once was used for the ranch horses where they came for shoeing and treatment. There are at least two other shallow concrete-like foundations on the land that indicate sheds of some sort. 

As Doug prepared the beds, others sifted the soil. This is the only bed that we plan so far to be finely sifted. We will use it to grow carrots. All the sifted soil was returned to the bed and a couple varieties of carrots sown. 

The onions are growing well and starting to get thicker stems. No signs of bulbing yet. 

All the potato varieties are growing strongly. They're quite lush. 

Everywhere we planted daikon, radishes, and turnips is doing great. They are enjoying the daily light rains too. We're harvesting these three veggies very week now.

The daikons, above, are still producing but we're seeing some bolting. So I suspect this variety is not a good summer variety for here. We need to keep that in mind.

So far the turnips, above, have been healthy. No pests have found them yet, 

We had transplanted some little garlic chive plants from the old garden site. At first they didn't look so hot, but now they've finally taken root. They're doing fine. 

The pineapples are showing signs of transplanting successfully. They are growing bigger and adding lots of new leaves. We still don't know how badly stunted they were by the uprooting. Time will tell. 

The pea vines are taking off and growing very rapidly. They should be flowering shortly. 

We seeded more radishes in between the broccoli. They will be ready to harvest before the broccoli gets too big.