Today I planted a Queen palm sprouted from seed, well… three of them in a cluster. I’ll keep the healthiest one in a month or so. It’s the first of 8 that I plan on planting in a straight line along the driveway.
For now we’ll grow them at 10 feet spacing, but if they end up growing big we will remove 4 of them to achieve 20 feet spacing. The front side of our property is really dry, sunny, and can be extremely windy and it’s been a real challenge to get any trees going. For a while I’ve put this whole area on the back burner. But now it’s seems like I have to deploy every technique I learned to establish a healthy regenerative ecosystem here.
Yesterday we harvested our very first artichoke that we grew. Julia made a honey mustard butter sauce and we enjoyed every petal down the heart. Tonight we had some sweet corn for dinner. This time around the corn had zero caterpillar damage!
Originally posted on 2021-04-14, part of the daily planting journal behind Ha’a Chocolate’s food forest on Hawai’i Island.