I’m pleased to announce the publishing of the latest article about my greenhouses - this one about my current pit greenhouse. It’s a modest hole in the ground that protects my tender tropical plants from the extremes of winter and summer without costing me an arm and a leg thanks to the miracle of earth-mass heating.
http://greenhouse.taroandti.com/2008/02/28/earth-sheltered-pit-greenhouse/
I have recently updated the recipes section with a LOT of new recipes. Cover your keyboards with drool-protection as you peruse these delicious recipes. And be sure to return frequently as I’ll be adding many new recipes to combine my horticultural habits with the need to eat.
I have been busy uploading useful information for you kalo growers over at my Taro section. I still have a great number of taro varieties to list, complete with descriptions courtesy the 1939 CTAHR Bulletin “Taro Varieties in Hawaii”. As time goes, I’ll flesh those descriptions out with plenty of photographs and reviews. Be sure to visit the Glossary and naturally, don’t neglect to read The Taro Disclaimer - very important!
I am embarking on a new adventure - growing my own avocados. This post begins my documentation of that adventure; the purchase of my first avocado plant. And, are those flowers already? This adventure could get interesting very quickly.
Here’s a little inspirational post I wrote to express the need for us gardeners to grow something, anything, at all times - even in the chilly grips of winter. Nothing is too small, nothing is too humble - get something growing to keep the flame lit and perhaps relieve your cabin-fever while you wait for the ground to thaw.
Here is a post describing my entry into the adventure of growing chocolate. Cacao theobroma is a finicky tree to grow and one that still challenges me and in this post I detail those challenges, with plenty of photographs of my progress. The adventure is far from over and many more articles will follow this one up until I’m holding my own home-grown pod of chocolate, and beyond.
Here is an essay I wrote documenting my first humble greenhouse. It was built out of cattle-panels, zip-ties and translucent poly, was very inexpensive to build and was amazingly effective at keeping my tender tropicals alive. This design has followed me in my current earth sheltered pit greenhouse, with the hoops covering the pit now.
http://greenhouse.taroandti.com/2008/02/26/first-greenhouse/
Boo Rescue is a post I wrote about my effort to rescue and rehabilitate a poorly growing and neglected bamboo from the back of my property. The area has a much shallower subsoil than I had known about when I planted it back there and over the four years it resided there, it didn’t grow any new culms or any taller and two of the plants had perished. This last boo is destined for greatness - its parents grew over 30′ tall and had 2″ culms easily.
Here’s a new post that I wrote recently. I recently purchased some Giant Grey Henon bamboo and this documents my review of it and my bamboo aspirations. I’ll follow this particular boo as it grows, giving a time-lapse of it going from it’s current 3-4′ tall culms to 40-60′ tall culms when it matures here in a few years.