Homesteading in Hawaii

Right now I'm growing my second crop in succession in the new pallet boxes. As you recall, crop number one was potatoes. After I harvest...

I've been making more boxes as I have the wood pallets available. Along one side of the sheep paddocks is an area with only an inch or s...

Now that I'm getting over my illness, I'm eager to garden. Before getting sick I had gotten Matt's place tilled up and ready fo...

Here's an update on the newest grow boxes. 3 are now full and planted. Boxes 1 & 2 are planted with yacon. The third box has potatoe...

Yeah, I'm always trying something a little new. Just tweeting my ideas to see if I find some slightly better way of doing it. Perhaps ma...

"P" emailed to ask, "Do you use the coolers in the greenhouse, or only outdoors?" So far I'm only using them in the ...

Gardening on one's lanai (aka- porch) is catching on. Super! Glad to see that some people are discovering that they don't have black...

Speaking of container gardening, here's a photo of "L" growing lettuce on her patio table. What a super idea! Around here gard...

"S" sent me an email that I thought would be great to pass along.  | --------------> "Isn't this lovely?  One Old-dead...

Way back on Nov 26, 2015 I posted a blog entry about a person here that lives on lava land, but still successfully gardens. She's been u...

Compost/soil? That's the term I use to describe the material that comes out of one of my pallet grow boxes. It isn't compost, becaus...

I received an email from a blog follower living not too far from me. Living on lava with virtually no soil, she has been experimenting with ...

By far the most time consuming part of pallet grow boxes is the filling process. It takes a heck of a lot of biomass to fill one. A box hold...

Recently I've been running into more and more people who are trying to use old pallets for making compost bins and container gardens. I...

Living on a lava rock island, I hear plenty of people whining that they can't grow vegetables because they have no soil. Sorry, but no s...