My Garden

After visiting the Sweet Home Waimanalo sister site, as well as viewing the drip irrigated planter boxes at the cafe which contained several varieties of fruits and veggies, I decided that it was about time to start rejuvenating my own home garden.  Ever since high school, I have at various times gone in and out of attempting to grow food in a few small patches in my backyard.  The history of my green thumb began with one of my many treks down to Pu'unui stream just a very short walk downhill from my home.  At the time I was only about nine or ten years old, and when I stumbled across a coconut which had begun to talk root and sprout on the bank of the stream shore, I was intrigued.  I uprooted the coconut and brought it back to my yard where I promptly took a shovel and dug up a small patch of ground, just enough for the coconut to sit halfway submerged in the soil, and plopped the nut in its new home for the next eight years.  It was then mistreated by me in a variety of ways, including feeding it chlorinated water from the pool on many occasions.  However, the resilient coconut kept growing and sparked my interest in growing plants.  I still think of what would have happened if I had decided to transplant something less hardy.

But it turned out that it was a coconut, which provided me with MANY MANY more coconuts than I could have ever cared to have over its lifetime, until it was finally cut down while I was in high school.  It was during high school that I decided to actual try out gardening and over the years I have grown many different plants including eggplant, snap peas, bok choy, choy sum, corn, dill, basil, thyme, and many others with varying levels of success.  One of the crops I was most proud of was the kalo I used to grow.  I began with one pot of kalo from the native plant section at Home Depot which I planted, harvested, replanted the keiki and repeated multiple times until I was growing over thirty plants in a small plot.  Every nine months I invited my best friend Matt Maile over for a harvesting and would then proceed to make poi, laulau, squid lu'au, and once we even tried kulolo.  Since high school as I became more invested in college I slowly harvesting and not replanting until there was nothing.

In other words, I need to change this.  So I went down to Home Depot and picked up some seeds and planted them a few weeks ago, they're sprouting and doing nicely so far.

In other news, I got my LSAT scores back on Sunday! I scored a 166 which is in the 93rd percentile, and I've already begun getting soliciting e-mails from schools, haha!