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Late Summer Garden Update
September was a slow time in my vegetable garden so i felt silly posting a tour. It should have been a busy month, full of sowing and transplanting and readying the earth as she tracks a slow pivot,...
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Kitchen Garden
Courtesy of Cooking Light MagazineI wanted the garden to start at my kitchen door but the soil and the slope and the wind are all wrong. It grows a few minutes away instead, stretched across a flat...
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Spinach, by any other name
He came home one day with a raggedy scrap of green and purple, swaddled in damp hardware receipts. "For you" he said as he kissed me hello, "Okinawan Spinach". This man knows that diamonds are not the...
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Oh Beans!
Last Sunday I opted out of the mad holiday rush long enough to sow a few bean seeds. Hours later, it rained. It rained all through the night, at least a foot i think. That much rain usually blasts in...
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Growing up
"What would you like to be when you grow up?" i asked the bean as she unfurled her leaves and raised her face to the sun. Being a bean she ignored me, leaving me alone to weave twine into trellis and...
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Zoned out
Do you know what zone you garden in? For most of us in Hawaii the answer is USDA plant hardiness zone 11. But that answer is based on the minimum temperature recorded each year in a given zone. And the...
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Harvest Monday~Kimchi
I was going to publish this as a Wordless Wednesday post but after visiting the Harvest Monday bloggers today i decided to join in for the first time. I enjoyed seeing everyone's harvests but was...
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February's Garden
Is it March? So soon? But i'm not ready! I've finally worked my way through the dull up and downloading of pictures and find myself loitering in February still. Join me for a quick stroll through...
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Girl gets Greedy
Baby chicks, fresh peas and asparagus. Even here that means Spring! We've been picking and eating asparagus for a few weeks now. I grow Purple Passion, a variety that is low in fibre and high in...
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Favas will grow
Twelve plants, four months, fourteen pods. Eating fresh favas? Not exactly priceless. I think i'll stick with limas. Favas have their own charm, i'm sure, when you need a bean that will survive a...
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2011 Eat Local Challenge
How often have i heard some bedraggled visitor grumbling about spending the day driving all the way to Hana and back? "The road was terrible and there was nothing to see when we got there" they...
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three little figs
An old cane house perches on the edge of a windswept Haiku pineapple field. You might not notice it if you happened to drive by. The old house is timeworn but well maintained and boasts a tidy...
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The rains will start soon
Summers are a slow time in my garden. It's the rain, or more precisely, the lack of rain. There are a few plants like tomatoes or maybe cowpeas that will survive and even bear without supplemental...
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Aloha Twenty Eleven
I make at least one resolution every New Year. Sometimes I nail it, sometimes not. I've got a few on my list this year, one of them being to post more often. I enjoy looking back over the year and...
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Resolutions are so overrated, don't you think? This blog has been dark since January and the garden has been skittering along on auto pilot, offering small harvests and lessons on neglect or maybe...
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Scratchin' out a Living
Chickens in the garden. Sounds like one of those incredibly clever, green, sustainable ideas doesn't it? After all chickens eat bugs, scratch up weeds, devour noxious seeds and even fertilize the...
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I turned 50 some time this year and suddenly my hips hurt. A lot. Everyday. Except not right now. Right now i feel great. I'm filthy and sunburned and covered in dirt and it's dark and i've just come...
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As simple as that
Balance the soil, select a variety suited to your conditions, plant in season. A winter garden on Maui can be as simple as that.Click if you'd like a closer look!I offer this beautiful Romanesco as an...
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Fifteen tiny miracles
Fifteen wrinkled peas scratched into the damp earth with a whispered prayer. A day, a week, and then...fifteen tiny miracles, stretching towards the sky. Golden Sweet Peas. Mahalo Jane!Gardeners know...
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