Heading towards the final stretch. Started the day with a fruit bowl and some home made yogurt from our neighbors raw milk. Very wonderful! Then off to work.
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| Jennifer making fruit bowl and yogurt breakfast |
When home I was able to prepare about a 200 foot long by 4 feet wide garden bed. It has never been planted before but had been spaded about a year ago. I added bio-char, dolomite lime (calcium and magnesium), horse manure, some wood shaving that had been inoculated with IMOs. Then I tilled that in and shoveled and raked the bed into a uniform and even garden bed. Tomorrow I'll add a thin layer of IMO #4 to the top surface and cover lightly with grass clipping. I'll use this bed to transplant the small taro plants that surround the big corms when I harvest them. I did the same preparation to the two rows that are next to the one I prepared today and they are thriving with cassava, sugar cane, sweet potato and taro.
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| new tomato plants in greenhouse |
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| lettuce and purslane in greenhouse |
These pictures are from two of my four greenhouse. One has new tomato plants starting to be trained up on bobbins. There are thirty two tomato plants and each week I trim off all suckers except the growing tip and clip to the bobbin. This method produces 4 tomatoes per plant every ten days and will keep producing for months. I am just now abandoning my other tomato greenhouse as those tomatoes have been producing since about February and are now a bit tired. The picture on the right is young little manoa green lettuce and purslane a very nutritious addition to salads. Google it.
For dinner Jennifer and I enjoyed sauteed french green beans, sugar cane juice with a half a lime, and a fresh green garden salad.
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| cane juice, french green beans, and garden salad |
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