Well, we got another load of mulch from the green waste before my mother commandeered the use of the truck to take her grandaughter shopping, but at least she helped unload the mulch out of the truck. So far we have added 2 red dwarf bananas, 1 mysore rasberry, 1 Red Mombin and about 20 cocoyams to the food forest bank down there, which is where the mulch went. I also put in the two betel nut palms that Ramana gave us, they were still little, but I bet they do okay. One is in the middle of Takako's food forest, the other is a little lower on the opposite side of the gulch. It will be standing right next to the G. maxima at maturity...
I spent a fair bit of time messing with the water system yesterday, finally putting in a line to water the Brandisii on Lillikoi lane. I had hoped to run a siphon out of the top pond to do that, but in the end tapped into the main line coming from the solar pump, because the level in the pond is still so low that pressure through the siphon line was inadequate. Or is that vacuum? I also drained the tanks from Geoff's roof and the shed catchment to water the guadua's in different spots. Did a tiny bit of thinning of the guadua on a few clumps, and pulled grasses out of most.
I used the purple cruiser bicycle a lot to move from location to location. At one point I finally broke down and tried to salvage a replacement pedal from Geoff's spare parts bike, but the thread size was different...
Spent a while trying to clean out the old hardening off area between that swale and the containers, which has gotten overgrown with grasses and seen the loss of a few plants that we didn't get out in time before the onset of the dry season... So, salvaging from amongst the dead was a bit dispiriting, but also gave some hope for the future. Looking forward to using the dioscorea/tahitian lillikoi shadehouse to propagate a bunch of oldhamii and burmanica, for instance...
last action of the day was to run a drip line down the burmanica hedge, which turns into albociliata and other stuff down the line. the burmanica seems like to be proving the most drought resistant of the bamboo's here, small leaves and all that...