Cucurbits — 2 varieties of summer and 4 varieties of winter squashes, 3 cucumbers, and 1 variety of watermelon out of several that managed to sprout are all clamoring to be planted soon now …. …I felt like the dill couldn’t wait so I planted them out today. - Cash Flow zucchini - Y-star yellow pattypan - Nutterbutter personal butternut - Greek Sweet Red XL butternut - Kurin personal kabocha - storebought kabocha seeds - Adam greenhouse cucumber - Suyo Long cucumber - China Jade cucumber - Kaho icebox watermelon Statistics: Posted by applestar — Fri May 17, 2024 9:52 pm ..read more

Thank-you. I definitely do not want to extend the slope further into the driveway. When I drove my car around, with the height of the car grill and deer guard, I am sometimes inches from the existing eroded slope with the deer guard. In hindsight, I may not want trees in the area due to the power line overhead, and the power line's right-of-way. I'm wondering if I can use plant roots as a (temporary?) 'band-aid' fix, including with alpine strawberry plants with their runners, and other plants to help hold the soil/rocks in place on the eroded slope. They need to handle about 5 hours of sunlig ..read more

I still need help on identifying two more trees. Because the pictures did not stay in the order I intended, I will repost the pictures to the small tree to the west again here. Statistics: Posted by PraticalGardener — Fri May 17, 2024 4:51 pm ..read more

Rain every day. Potato plants like this. I can't till mud to plant corn & beans. Statistics: Posted by Gary350 — Fri May 17, 2024 12:02 pm ..read more

Tomatoes, cucumber, green onions, eggplant. Statistics: Posted by imafan26 — Thu May 16, 2024 10:39 pm ..read more

I do go out and get plate lunches or take out, but only once in a while do I go out to eat. There aren't that many restaurants, at least the ones I go to that have gone back to dine in service. I do actually have a lunch with friends this Saturday and my mom's birthday lunch the week after. For me that is a lot of going out. It costs more than $40 for a meal per person, some places it is more. Once in a while it is o.k. The place we are going to next week does not have walk in customers, it is strictly by reservation for parties of 10 or more. We have to book the whole room. A lot of restauran ..read more

Today, I am eating what I already have in the house. It has been raining all night and it is still raining. I am making beef stew. I changed my spice mix. I added garlic powder, onion powder, pepper, Tony Cacheros cajun salt free seasoning (new), cumin, and poultry seasoning to the flour I used to coat the meat. I make a beef flavored stew, There is more vegetables than meat. I use a package mix and added 2 more packets of salt free bouillon, and two packets of sazon. I added more water like 5 cups. I calls for 3, but I will be cooking this a long time so I need to consider evaporation. I brow ..read more

It is 71 degrees and muggy because of the Kona Low. It has been raining all night and sometimes it has been heavy. It is slightly letting up now and the heaviest rain has moved off shore. The forecast was for 100% rain. Well, it was hard to miss that one. The ground has been saturated for days, but the rain is coming slow enough that it is able to drain. I don't live in a flood zone and I do live where it rains a lot, so the ground here can take more rain than the drier parts of the island that isn't used to having a lot of rain. There has been some flooding on the other side of the island flo ..read more

It has been raining intermittently, sometimes heavy for a few days. A Kona low is moving in tonight and tomorrow will again have intermittently heavy rain. If could be a bigger problem for some people. The roads to the windward side of the island over the last three days have had mudslides (they are fixining that tonight) Roads have been flooded, streams have gone over the bridges, and we have a brown water alert. The Kona low pulls up moisture from the south but it tends to stall. Most of the rain is predicted fo fall on Oahu and Kauai. A lot of the rain from the last system hit the windward ..read more

This is definitely one of those random dishes, with a bunch of ingredients I'm trying to use up! I made another batch of an Italian type dish, this one with some cremini mushrooms, some bell peppers, and some of the stems from that Swiss chard I harvested a week or so ago. I also chopped up a large onion, and I minced up a bunch of rosemary, marjoram, and 8 cloves garlic, and about 6 anchovies (maybe more!). Before preparing all these things, I started by "brining" a cup of puy lentils, and while that was going, I cooked 3/4 c barley some water in the Instant Pot, with a little salt, 20 min, t ..read more