Planting kalo


Okay, time for another photo essay on kalo farming. I hope folks enjoy these, and maybe learn a bit.

John plants by the moon so last Thursday was a planting day.

This is a dry land patch with 'uala (sweet potato) interplanted in rows to help keep down the weeds. This is a quick way to get ground in production initially and with minimum maintenance, and to produce plenty huli for replanting. In the background is where the main 'auwai runs over the pali and back to the stream.



Here is one mama plant and her 'ohana. Each plant had maybe 15 keiki for replanting.



Here's the mama plants we harvested resting in the 'auwai.



For scale here's my size 11.5 foot.



And these are the keiki that come off.



The leaves are removed and the huli are graded. Larger corms are cut off, but the smaller can be planted with the corm.



A pile of kalo, ready to clean and cook.



Planting.



All planted. And me covered in lepo. I guess this lo'i is my kuleana to tend now :-)


Posted: Sun - December 18, 2005 at 01:13 PM    
   
 
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