TROUTS
LATEST PHOTOS
April,
2003 – Issue #23
BOB
AND CAMILLE AT HOME ON MAUI
TARO PATCH
Between March 11th and April
20th, Bob transformed the cardboard sheet mulching experiment and weed bank,
into a terraced garden perfect for the dry land taro given us by Duke.
GOT POI?
What’s good enough for the
Polynesians is good enough for us. Taro or ‘Kalo’ was one of the
plants the Polynesians brought to Hawaii for sustenance and better
living. These essential plants are known as Canoe Plants or Heritage
Plants. The early Hawaiians ate both the leaves and the starchy
corm. Duke told us you must boil the leaves and throw out the water
three times to get rid of the oxalic crystals. Bob just stuck the
plants into the red dirt without soil amendments and they are doing great.
HAWAIIAN GARDEN
Our garden grows steadily on
with this magnificent Queen Palm in the background and purple blossoms on
the lawn. Red sails lettuce likes it here in our garden. It is
impervious to pests and disease.
We bought an acorn squash for
dinner a few months ago and the seeds took root in the compost pile so Bob
moved a plant to the garden. You can see one of its fruits on the
left. This is the first time either of us have grown this kind of
squash. It was delicious. We had it with dinner on April
26. Remember that new bed Bob made last month? Here it is with
carrots that have come up from seed and a zucchini in the front.
EARTH DAY
In which we learn not to start
forest fires. Here Camille poses with two sweaty icons of
environmental advice.
JACARANDA
Camille toasts the spectacular
display of the Jacaranda with some of Bob’s home brew. These Brazilian
trees turn all of Upcountry Maui purple every spring.
I ALWAYS PROMISED YOU A ROSE
GARDEN
On April 13, Duke gave us
permission to harvest all the roses we wanted to from his Rose Garden in
exchange for their care. We began weeding, pruning, spraying
fertilizing, and mulching the next day and were able to complete 12 out of
36 plants. Duke has been buying only the most fragrant and beautiful
roses for years. Among these plants there are award winners such as
Chrysler Imperial and Fragrant Cloud and other greats like Oklahoma and New
Zealand with blooms of red, pink, yellow and lavender.
Some of the plants have
already bloomed. Here, Camille has five different roses on her desk
along with some gladiolas, agapanthus and Gerbera daisies. The large
coral-colored bloom is Fragrant Cloud and it has an aroma capable of
bringing about a bliss attack.
ART OF TRASH
Camille and Wilma pose in
their home made outfits at this year’s Art of Trash grand opening event on
April 11th. Wilma’s outfit was assembled using plastic produce
netting, paper bags and duct tape. For more on this story, check out
the fashion show at Art of Trash.
WRANGLER WANNA BE
Camille stands at the gate to Pi’iholo
Ranch on her first day of training for wrangler duty, April 4th.
The Pi’iholo, behind her is a cinder cone from one of Haleakala’s eruptions
and is the prime objective for all trail rides. It stands as a
landmark in our neighborhood and graces this 8,000 acre cattle ranch.
Camille will soon be taking tourists on 2 to 3 1/2 hour trail rides around
the ranch and up to the top of the Pi’iholo. It took some doing to
round up enough western clothes to look the part. How is she doing?