I read this Organic Gardening article about farming in Kauai, and the most interesting part to me was the information on taro. The taro root serves a similar position to the potato in Hawaiian cuisine. In Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire, he describes how there were hundreds of different varieties of potatoes created to [...]
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Over the weekend, I purchased three 8″x6″x2″ 8′ and one 4″x2″ 8′ boards to make a 4′x8′ bed. I read off a screw box that one should used stainless steel and not galvanized screws for redwood or cedar since the acids in those woods can corrode galvanized steel. I used 3 inch screws tha required [...]
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Rangpur Lime - very nice tart taste.
Nagami Kumquat - Evan wanted this - I’m not a kumquat fan. They’re too small for my tastes.
Kinnow Tangerine - A lot of seeds, but not a bad taste.
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