{"id":47,"date":"2007-10-13T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-10-13T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T08:22:16","slug":"guava-stumps-more-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2007\/10\/guava-stumps-more-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Guava stumps, more tea planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the fence is up, i&#8217;m super eager to get all the ailing tea plants out of the greenhouse and into the ground.  But one more hurdle: the field had some guava trees on it (<em>strawberry guava, waiaw\u00c3\u201e\u00c2\u00ab<\/em>, <em>Psidium cattleianum<\/em>).  These guava are a fast-growing invasive species; together with <em>Eucalyptus robusta<\/em> they make up an impenetrable two-tier forest that overpowers everything else in its path.  Last year we chainsawed then ripped most of them out by tying a chain around the roots hooked up to the pickup truck&#8230; but there were 3 stumps left too big, nearly broke the hitch off the F-150 trying to pull them out.<\/p>\n<p>I chopped them with loppers and shovel, trying to rip the roots out one by one, getting nowhere.  Then i got neighbor (and coconut expert) Kai to tackle them.  Went away for a few minutes and when i came back&#8230; Kai had gotten medieval on the guava with a pickaxe, and was ripping the stumps out of the ground with his bare hands.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/TeaPlantation\/photo#5121099352051945810\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.google.com\/bdiscoe\/RxHMulqKEVI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/LNGeondQrhc\/s144\/DSC01818-2.JPG\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/TeaPlantation\/photo#5121099377821749602\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.google.com\/bdiscoe\/RxHMwFqKEWI\/AAAAAAAAANI\/UN9wcF8S0cc\/s144\/DSC01820.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In short order he had a second stump out, then we set about planting, replacing a few plants that didn&#8217;t make it, and starting a third row with the Darjeeling seedlings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/TeaPlantation\/photo#5121099399296586098\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/TeaPlantation\/photo#5121099399296586098\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/TeaPlantation\/photo#5121099399296586098\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.com\/bdiscoe\/RxHMxVqKEXI\/AAAAAAAAANQ\/Vv_QozEgVNs\/s288\/DSC01821-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the fence is up, i&#8217;m super eager to get all the ailing tea plants out of the greenhouse and into the ground. But one more hurdle: the field had some guava trees on it (strawberry guava, waiaw\u00c3\u201e\u00c2\u00ab, Psidium &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2007\/10\/guava-stumps-more-planting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crops","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}