It has been some time since I added an entry...

You know, I think I never mentioned that we planted out the remaining Guadua's from the silly bamboo/palm thatch prop house leanto against the container. A bicolour and a couple more full thornies went out into the extreme windward zone, mixed up with albizzia's and qld maples, and all that gliricidia. They looked a little shaky at first but with all the rain we've had they came back well. The prop house is covered in tahitian lillikoi vine and it has some fruit forming right now. Nothing much in the house itself except for a few deglupta's.

Lately, most of my work here has been about the deglupta's potting them into the 1 gallon bags. We have nearly 500 at that stage, with maybe a hundred or so more still at the tiny seedling in 4 inch pots stage. We probably could have made more, but went for the quality over quantity approach in the end, prefering not to mess with each and every root system too much.

Last few days I have begun to place cacao plants in the very bottom of the gulch. The ones that I put in the very light shade of Takako's food forest seemed to be struggling with the sun, (or what we've had of it) so I decided to put them down in the bottom of the gulch, since there is already a canopy down there, and it is free of the grasses that I would have to fight in most other locations... I also put a Pterocarpus right down the bottom there, so we'll see how well he does there. I think he is the last of any substance from that propagation of seeds that came from the Honolulu Zoo. There are a couple more in the nursery but they aren'y really doing anything. Also, got a good hole ready for one of the Dendrocalamus Brandisii's, that are in the nursery ready to go out. In a great moment of serendipity I waded through a bunch of ferns to a spot that looked good, but wondered how I would get the necessary soil amendments all the way back there without killing myself - and as I was clearing back the vegetation to dig the hole I discovered an old dope growers stash of pots and nice mix which I guess will work. I came up here for some lunch, and after this I will head back out and plant the bamboo.

The choppers have been around a lot, seem very curious about the trees I have been planting. Yesterday a guy on a rope was hovering above some of them and I started off in his direction to see if he wanted a bit of an ethnobotanical tour, but he flew away.

Still finding stuff in the long grass... Today it was a couple of small rolls of barbed wire and half a dozen half rusted t posts. They were underneath the mango that is underneath the java plum growing next to the nursery... I was cutting back some grass to make pooka's to plant some of the many tahitian lillikoi's we have in one gallon pots that I need to move in order to make space for all the eucalyptus degluptas...
Things have been pretty wild lately. Propane shortages, lack of sun and solar power... Sheba the shegoats has gotten all sick, so we have had to employ a range of vets and medecines...
Half of the chooks were killed by dogs one morning last week. Pretty sure it was Ray and Loki's dogs, of course, Ray didn't think so, but Loki was quite conciliatory. She gave Lorinda a bunch of food, and a really cheap deal (?) on some meat goats that she needed to offload!
I don't think I have blogged since I moved another albociliata to the driveway, or did I? Did I write about planting the hedge of multplex alphonse karr and the malay dwarf? Well, that went in just south of the barn as I have probably discussed here before.