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.
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Cilantro and successful milk carton gardening
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
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?