Spread more woodchips this weekend, just below the top swale below the barn... this will I hope give the peanut on that swale a free ride... I also weeded the actual swale, and planted more peanut, and some pennyroyal. Go the creeping groundcovers.
Sunday I put in about 30 E. deglupta's plus pidgeon pea seed and Sesbania sesban seedlings, in the area between the Guadua hedge and the cabin/old schoolhouse.
One big bottle of pidgeon peas got molested by weevils, so I broadcast that into long grass in a few places. Be interesting to see if anything comes of that.
Ruby was hanging out with me while I was planting, and together we had to run Shiloh off. I swear I should get a gun and shoot that dog.

Nearly a month of no blogging.
Well, it has been a wet month for the most part. I have scrambled about a little bit trying to plant out some of trees and so on that really needed to go in the ground, even without having areas really adequately prepared...
I don't know if I mentioned in an earlier blog, but somewhere along the line I made the decision to start putting the cacao down in the bottom of the gulch under Java plum and Xmas berry. It is quite a hike getting in there, carting plants and soil amendments, but the trees that have gone in so far seem to like it down there. I also put in two Dendrocalamus, an asper and a brandisii, on opposite sides of the gulch but quite close to the bottom...
The other day I put some Malabar Chestnuts out along the swales, being careful to try to prserve the ocean view for the barn. Of course ultimately those things will get very big, so after Brad and Takako are gone someone will have to decide if looking at the ocean from that Lanai is important to them as the side branches pf that canopy start to intrude!
Of course I bought a truck, and have been bringing home loads of this and that. Yesterday was a nice load of Ficus benjamina. Actually finished early enough to have time to spread it on some cardboard in the between the swales. Of course, however much mulch I can get, it is never enough, and see that there is still a long, long way to go!
In the morning and the evening before I ran loads of cinders out to the Twin Falls propagation nursery. We struck on a deal where I will take them materials every so often in exchange for plants. So far, I have 8 plants coming to me from the exchange... Probably will get 8 more textilis and plant them in a hedge to hide from the new barn next door!