Lo'i Kalo - One Year
Here's the lo'i I planted at Kapahu one year ago
this Friday. Fortunately, Uncle John has had some folks help bury the weeds a
couple times while it was maturing, and now it's close to ready to start
harvesting. See previous
photos. The most recent one is from August (sorry for not posting
more, but last few times I was there I had either forgotten my camera, had dead
batteries, or just forgot to take a picture), taken at about the same spot, and
you can see how it has filled in with leaves a lot more, and how each plant has
a lot more oha around it. But the leaves actually get smaller at this stage as
it puts its growth into the corm. I've finally been reading the
Taro: Mauka to
Makai book that UH CTAHR had put out (now out
of print unfortunately), and it has great charts and illustrations of the life
cycle. Forever learning, and hardly anything more satisfying. I have some more
photos of the other patches I've been following to post shortly,
too.
Posted: Mon - December
11, 2006 at 07:36 PM