A Successful Crop of Zucchini!

Jai Ganesha!

As you may know, we've recently started our first small crops growing in our new high-tunnel green houses. Without this protection, growing things like zucchini and cauliflower in Kauai can be quite a challenge. Although these plants are still small, we've just successfully harvested several batches of zucchini. This little squash is greatly enjoyed by Satguru and our monks. Our first harvest gave us 10lbs of picture-perfect zucchini which Chinnu later transformed into a delicious curry. Aum.

Our first harvest of some wonderfully tasty zucchini!

Our high tunnels are already proving their worth

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re now getting regular crops of picture-perfect veggies. We\'re harvesting them at about 7 inches which makes for very soft zucchini.'

Nirvani Tejadevanatha has been pollinating them by hand

You simply take the pollen from the inside of one flower

like so

and then apply that pollen to all the other flowers

and voila!

A full 10lbs of home-grown, organic goodness.

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