Two weeks of Germination.

The past two weeks have been a mini lesson in planting vegetables from seeds, with the germination process being a slow but easy task to understand. We ended up planting all sorts of vegetables and flowers, some of which are pictured below. There are cucumbers, eggplants, multiple tomatoes, peppers, sunflowers, lettuce, squash, marigolds and violas.

The picture above are the seedlings of an Heirloom tomato variety called the Brandywine Tomato.

These little guys are a variety of Roma tomatoes.

More tomatoes.



Here is a wonderful Kitty named Mochi. He likes to follow you everywhere you go in the garden. Whether it's weed whacking in the long grass or watering the nursery, Mochi is always around playing with whatever he can't find. Once the cat is around, then the dog comes too.

Roses are one of my favorite flowers in a garden. They are elegant, beautiful, chic, and very lovely. The ones above and below are going to be part of ten roses that will make up one spectacular rose garden, full of all different shapes, sizes, colors, and fragrances. I am very excited to start working on it.

The final leg of our journey, the Banana tree. It takes a Banana tree nine months before it can send out a flower that will eventually turn into a fruit, but when the fruit is complete the tree must come down and make way for the next one. This particular banana tree is ready to come down, the tree has died and is starting to fall over. I have harvested the bounty of bananas and violently hacked the banana stalk down to the ground, in an effort to fertilize and make room for the younger baby tree. At the end of every life cycle there is a birth of a new.

It is finally raining. This is the first measurable rain in three weeks! In Hilo, Hawaii it usually rains about two hundred inches a year. Happy super sunday, Go Saints.