Oh my god there is so much fruit on right now... It is pretty good. I harvested 5 bunches of banana's in the last 3 days! Pretty nice bunches too. I think the mulching is paying off...
Made a smoothie tonight that was entirely composed of free fruit. young Coconut juice, lilikoi juice (scooped the pulp into a bowl lined with a thin cloth and squeezed the nectar out to avoid getting the seeds in), Lahaina mango's, banana's and a little pineapple from outside the barn garden. I think that's all. It was pretty sensational.
Did a bunch of random things today. POtted up more comfreys. Moved the G. Angus "less thornies" into a full sun position... Then I went down to the gulch and cleaned the flue on the gas fridge in the kitchen down there, which I have been putting off for a few weeks now. Also tightened up the roof over the kitchen as it was getting pretty slack...
Cut a few more bunches of bananas and after Lorinda, Lichen and Myra picked buckets and buckets of lilikoi I loaded them in the truck and took them up top...
Then Donald took me off to Haiku to pick up a chipper Shredder that he found for free at a garage sale. It doesn't have a motor but of course that's no problem!
He also wanted to get some bicycles that had been dumped at the recycle yard but they were gone by the time we got there. I grabbed some cardboard but it wasn't really accessible because the bins were jammed full.
We carried three different hitch hikers different parts of the way home in the truck along with the chipper and some flyscreens of Donalds and a sink from the Kahului Railway Station...
Back at the farm we looked at the possibility of hooking up the chipper to the engine in the mercedes... Donald proposed we mount it over the engine bay... I think he is still proposing this... I'm not sure this is a great idea. Anyway, we decided to try and get the mercedes engine to at least run before we went too far down that road. There is no battery so we had to hook it up to the VW and Donald managed to get the starter to spin a little bit, but I dunno - we don't have the key for the ignition switch and neither of us are sure how to hotwire a diesel...
So we decided to do some research and get back to the mercedes. We're going to have to pull the engine out of it and mount it on some kind of rack or trailer or somethin'...
We parted company there and I got the tiller out and dug some beds by the first couple of holes I made for the Guadua's, to plant some support species for the young bamboo...
When I had finished I decided to try and hook the tiller's (undersized) motor up to the chippper. Donald came by and saw what I was playing at and started playing with me again. We first tried it backwards and couldn't really work out why it wasn't doing anything... Then we put it round the right way and it did an okay job through the shredder bit on the top, but the chipper hole wouldn't work at all... Then we realised that the chipper hole is actually missing a blade or blades... so we have more research to do there.
But how exciting! A chipper!
Then Donald went off to do his laundry and I did some planting. pinto, pineapple, turmeric, banana's, crotalarias, that legume that smells like cannabis, that largeleaved oregano that smells like cannabis, pidgeon pea seedlings and seed, various beans from mana as a short term cover crop... Sprinkled some light mulch around and called it good. Oh I put in the first two of this round of Guadua's too!
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