04-23-2005, 05:20 AM
Emily,
Can't wait to hear from you. We looked at a place on N. Kulani before we bought ours. Love it up there. Do you know about the free mulch at the Hilo landfill for doing raised beds? Please contact me and visit soon. I love meeting new people and sharing information and ideas. Have you been to the Sunday Farmers Market in Pahoa? It's a kick inthe butt with old hippies and such...
I start all my plants so far in a tabletop greenhouse and then transfer then to the garden. I recommend for you to use raised beds.l Cut some Ohia logs, to make a "box", dig the little soil you have loose inside it, fill it the rest of the way with mulch, add lime and mix thoroughly. A little fertilizer and in a week or two you are ready to plant in there.
Regular tomatoes will never do well in the outdoors here. There is a nematode in the soil that ruins them... as you said mush. You either grow in raised beds of bagged potting mix or a hydroponic setup, both in a greenhouse that is sealable from flyijnginsects. The fruit flies "sting" the fruit/veggies and ruin them. They have gotten over half my outdoor squash already. Locals here use nettingover outdoor plants that bear a fruit or veggie like this.... I am still learning myself.
Okay, babble, babble... contact me pslamont@yahoo.com and i will give you my phone numbers. Hope to meet you soon.
Aloha. Pam
Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!
Can't wait to hear from you. We looked at a place on N. Kulani before we bought ours. Love it up there. Do you know about the free mulch at the Hilo landfill for doing raised beds? Please contact me and visit soon. I love meeting new people and sharing information and ideas. Have you been to the Sunday Farmers Market in Pahoa? It's a kick inthe butt with old hippies and such...
I start all my plants so far in a tabletop greenhouse and then transfer then to the garden. I recommend for you to use raised beds.l Cut some Ohia logs, to make a "box", dig the little soil you have loose inside it, fill it the rest of the way with mulch, add lime and mix thoroughly. A little fertilizer and in a week or two you are ready to plant in there.
Regular tomatoes will never do well in the outdoors here. There is a nematode in the soil that ruins them... as you said mush. You either grow in raised beds of bagged potting mix or a hydroponic setup, both in a greenhouse that is sealable from flyijnginsects. The fruit flies "sting" the fruit/veggies and ruin them. They have gotten over half my outdoor squash already. Locals here use nettingover outdoor plants that bear a fruit or veggie like this.... I am still learning myself.
Okay, babble, babble... contact me pslamont@yahoo.com and i will give you my phone numbers. Hope to meet you soon.
Aloha. PamJust another day in P A R A D I S E !!
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"