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Category: Plants in Hawaii

This section holds an encyclopedia of plants that have come from or will be brought to the Hawaii Kai Plant Exchange. There are also anecdotes about permaculture: composting and aquaponics in particular.

Winged Beans, A Natural for the Hawaii Garden

Posted on June 21, 2022

Winged beans really ought to be more readily available here on Oahu. They are delicious. These beans love Hawaii’s climate, and due to our proximity to the equator and our generally warm and humid climate, will flourish as a perennial.

Cilantro and successful milk carton gardening

Posted on January 24, 2022

Cilantro can be quite temperamental. It takes a good spell to finally germinate, only to be quickly consumed by Hawaii’s vast array of bugs. Always up to a challenge, I wanted to see if I could finally make it work.

It tastes like cilantro, but does it? Rating the substitutes

Posted on January 20, 2022

Cilantro, the plant we in Hawaii once knew as Chinese parsley, is a gardener’s frustration.

It’s slow to sprout, and once it gets above ground, a feast for slugs and snails. Then, if we’re lucky enough to get a few leaves of it, it goes to seed in the hot Hawaii sun.

We hear that there are plants that are like cilantro, but are there really?

Tackling the 5-year Challenge: Making Composting Work

Posted on October 31, 2021

Going green isn’t a one-size-fits-all, and it’s time we go beyond the government encouragement. There’s something for everyone but traditional methods of composting don’t work for most modern households.

Closet Gardening with LED Grow Lights

Posted on September 27, 2021

There’s no need to read about indoor farming as the wave of the future. It’s here now and is available to everyone.

Plant Layering Hack: Safety Staples

Posted on July 8, 2021

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…

Brad’s Atomic Grape Tomato

Posted on July 2, 2021

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…

Cherokee Purple Tomato

Posted on June 30, 2021

I’ve tested these out for Hawaii’s climate. They’re fantastic. The Cherokee Purple tomato is classified as a medium sized variety and the one in the picture weighed a pound. The variety is…

Okra

Posted on May 26, 2020

Okra, a distant cousin of hibiscus, is grown for edible seed pods and is popular in US southern and even Japanese cuisine. The variety we have is Jambalaya Okra, which produces prolifically…

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