This week, Costco shut down the extra 9:00 am Hawaii Kai hour for kupuna. Next week, beginning on July 26, 2021 it plans to reverse course and reopen at 9:00 am again. According to this link: https://www.costco.com/covid-updates.html, Iwilei will have even longer opening hours, from 8:00-9:00 am on Tuesdays and […]
Month: July 2021
So far this year, we’ve been blessed with multiple visits from our friends. It started in April and has been continuing for the past few months. I thought I’d share this thank you art from one of the kids. You can see him in the window, and the quail in […]
Join us at our monthly plant exchange, second Tuesdays in Hawaii Kai
Layering is a way to grow new plants from existing plants without having to take any cuttings. In a nutshell, bury part of a stem or branch in the soil and new roots and shoots will form. This method is often more successful than propagating from cuttings, because the new […]
This upcoming plant exchange on July 13, 2021 will have a wide variety of tomatoes to choose from. I’m bringing three types, our plant exchange friends “G and L” will be bringing six more. Here’s what we’re expecting: Tomato (I) – “Brandywine” – Tomato (D) – “Rutgers” – Tomato (I) […]
Since last month’s quail hatch yielded only eight chicks and because all that hatched were spoken for beforehand, I started another incubation on July 1. The new chicks are set to hatch around July 18. Just before I set the eggs, the tilapia in my new aquaponics set up decided […]
We got these beauties in June of 2020, several months before the temporary farmer’s market shutdown. I have to say that I was never able to get the same rainbow of colors shown above. Mine were red, purple and green. I waited and waited, hoping to see some yellows and […]
