Aloha.

My first seven went in yesterday. I cleared down two feet of kikui grass to reach the dirt. Patch is @8 ft wide and 60 ft long. Plants are 6 to 10 feet apart. Holes are two feet deep and two feet wide. It is in an old watercourse that through the ages built up some deep soil. These are my first legal plants and are planted in the ground. Two are budded and should be ready in mid to late April. All have showed me that they are female and with the size of my area should get up to 15 ft tall. The plants are in the full sun all day.

Soil is a mixture of moatly FF ocean mixed with, topsoil from the hole, aged steer manure, bone and bloodmeal, and some old Sunshine mix #3 that produced last years potted plants. Also planted roses and sweet peppers just for grins and giggles. So patch #1 is off and running.

Patch #2 has had all seven of its holes dug and half are filled with my mix. There is only one place that sells FF Upcountry and they want $18 for a medium sized bag. This outside stuff at home is expensive. At least I don't have to spend large amounts of money on power and lights.

Patch #3 is going in the blackberries. I have already cleared a hole through the thorns and begun to clear the area for my kids. I'm already cut up but I can tell you this one will be a bitch. On the plus side if you do not know where the hole is to get into this patch you will be flailing around in some mean thorns.

Patch # 4 is the wife of my youth's This means they go where she wants them to go. My input is not needed, or wanted. She is now in the process of digging up MY ROSE BED. We have close to five acres and she has to pick the one area that I have had beautiful roses on for ten+ years. By the time she is done a whole bunch of my beautiful roses will be dead or near to it. So on top of everything else, I get to prepare a fifth area to try to save what she is gleefully ripping out.

Here are pics of the first patch;

1)Comming soon.
2)Top View. Empty.
3)Top View. Same Day. Occupied. 1st plant will be grown at sideways. 2nd and 3rd should be giants.
4)Girl 1. Done By April
5)Girl 2. White Widow/Bloodweed. Also Done By April.