11-17-2005, 04:51 PM
I am a rabid gardener. Its real, real hard to move away from all this lovely soil to a place that is mostly lava. The fact is if I can't sucessfully vegetable garden in Puna, I can't guarantee I will stay for long...its that important to me. I will give my all to learn to garden there and find out what grows and how. I tell you the older I get, the more I treasure great garden soil. I love, love the smell of a good loamy soil. I really think container gardening and raised beds will be essential with all the rain. More concerns are is there enough sun and not too much rain and are the bugs too hard to battle. We will see.