Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Hey HONOLULU: anyone have seeds or starts to donate to the campus garden?


if so please send or drop off to:
Eating in Public
c/o Department of Art and Art History
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
2535 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822

Sunday, January 2, 2011

SunnHemp Day


Big Day Today.

The Nitrogen fixing (adds Nitrogen to soil) "Sunnhemp" came down today without much trouble. Exactly 2 months and 1 day from the day the seeds were planted. The stalks grew over 6 feet tall and the woody stems snapped easily. We allowed the Sunnhemp to flower so the plant could pull as much Nitrogen from the air and deposit it into the soil. All plants need and flourish with ample amounts of Nitrogen to feed them.

We left 2-4" of the Sunnhemp stems in the soil and tilled them in with a pitchfork. This allows more of the Nitrogen to deposit into the soil as well as adding a mulch when the stems begin to dry out and decompose. The next step is to rid the garden bed of grass and weeds and begin planting out new crops.