Yesterday we moved on the sheet mulch around the backdoor. Planted a whole bunch of pennyroyal out. It will, we hope, form a beautiful aromatic, fly repellant groundcover around the herb spiral and up to the lanai so that we barely need to mow ever again! We also added more shadecloth to the nursery as the winter sun is peeking through from that lower angle.
I dug around in the venting system of the mercedes to try to work out why it is catching on fire on start up. Didn't really figure it out, unfortunately.
Today, I planted about a dozen casuarina's out, in an arc following ho'olawa rd in the trade wind direction. it will be a little support for the bamboo...
watered the three clumps that I am looking at transplanting from that hedge, and dug a moster hole for a new guadua there.
Then I went off and planted 5 Bambusa Burmanica's between the deriveway and Ho'olawa Rd. It would be nice to have the right species ready to drop in the lower stretch, but the ones I have aren't really ready to go out yet.
In the afternoon the girls did peanut and sweet potato cuttings, and I think Lorinda was in the vegetable patch. I spent some time working on the new shed/tractor barn.
Oh this morning, Donald and I went out and did an hour or so of road works on Ulalena, scraping the sides of the road and throwing it in the potholes and digging out some of the drains that aren't allowing the water to get away very well. We got a lot of thankyous and mahalos from the neighbours...