Homesteading in Hawaii

On Facebook I see a lot of photos of people's greenhouse. Here in Hawaii, they are often actually high tunnels as opposed to the greenho...

"S" emailed me and asked about why I bothered to mulch the soil in the greenhouse that isn't being used at the moment. She did...

Greenhouse #1  ---  The crop has been harvested, the crop residue and weeds removed. These went into the compost piles. So the greenhouse wa...

The cucumber/zucchini greenhouse is spent. This one is Greenhouse #1. Time to tear out the old plants, rejuvenate the soil, and plant again...

I noticed a few dots of powdery mildew starting on the tomato plants in the greenhouse. Time to clean them up and do something about it. So ...

To date I've gotten 59 zucchini. Around here, zucchini sells for $1 each.  So far I've harvested 56 nice cucumbers. These also sell ...

Zucchini squash.....       Growing zucchini in a protected greenhouse actually works for me. Wow. Pickleworm has been the number one problem...

Several folks have asked about how I'm watering in the greenhouses. I'm using a rather low tech approach......a hose.  Ok, it...

I've only had the greenhouses operating full scale for the past two months. But already I've been able to make several observations....

Hawaii just had a hurricane pass south of the islands -- Hurricane Erick. With all the storm warnings, I did indeed take a few precautions. ...

Because of heavy winds we got a while back, all three greenhouses needed some repair. The oldest one had a few broken hoops. The pcv pipes s...

I'm covering my greenhouses in greenhouse plastic. As you recall, I initially used off-the-shelf, run of the mill poly plastic, but it i...

Oh no....it's not me that I'm referring to (as you gather by now, I seldom stop.)  It's my mini greenhouses. They've been id...

"D" wrote to say....." Hi Su, I am in Honomu and your mini greenhouse is EXACTLY what I need. Would you please let me know wh...

My Initial experiment with the mini greenhouses were a success. My hubby saw them as failures because.... ....the plastic shredded  ....the ...

I've been real eager to get something growing in my new greenhouses. But alas, I haven't finished filling the growing boxes with dir...

So here's where I last posted .........  Basic greenhouse structure is up. Next step -- build some raised beds. Why? Because the greenho...

I'm on a roll! With the completion of 22 table top mini greenhouses (I still have two more to make as soon as I find a couple more palle...

The blog has been quiet lately while I've been working on a project to grow fresh greens (lettuce, spinach, arugula, etc). The problems ...