{"id":115555,"date":"2020-04-08T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T00:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=115555"},"modified":"2020-04-09T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:59:19","slug":"where-to-plant-your-home-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/08\/where-to-plant-your-home-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to plant your home garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-ctahr-garden1.jpg\" alt=\"garden\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-115653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-ctahr-garden1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-ctahr-garden1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-ctahr-garden1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Selection of the best home garden site is the focus of the second installment in the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> (<abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr>) &ldquo;How to Start Your Own Home Garden&rdquo; series.<\/p>\n<p>Cooperative Extension Service Agent <strong>Glenn I. Teves<\/strong> offers tips on selecting a garden site based on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s array of soils and climates. The first consideration is access to water, especially in a fairly dry area. The area should also be free from large rocks and tree stumps, with good sun exposure and not be shaded by large trees or structures. Drier areas are usually richer than wetter areas, although more water is needed. Some areas with thin lava soil are the richest areas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/06\/farm-at-home\/\">Farm at home during COVID-19 crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Southern exposure and wind<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115476\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-ctahr-greenonions-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Green onion garden \" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-ctahr-greenonions-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-ctahr-greenonions-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-ctahr-greenonions-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-ctahr-greenonions.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green onion garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Each side of a house has different wind, sun, temperature and growing hours.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The southern side will have the most intense sun, the north and east will be the windiest and the north will be the coolest, with the least amount of sun.<\/li>\n<li>The west will have the most wind protection, but may have fewer growing hours due to shading from your house.<\/li>\n<li>The southwest is often the best area to locate a garden; good southern exposure takes advantage of the spring sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Protection from the wind can be a luxury in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. But rather than reject a windy site, one could plant a windbreak: sorghum-sudan grass, pearl millet or vetiver grass. Sorghum-sudan is the fastest growing&#8212;it can provide a six-foot-high wind barrier only 40 days from seed. When the grasses get too long, just trim them back and cut into mulch.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/NewsLetter\/selecting-a-garden-site\">Visit the <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr> website for more tips.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first consideration in selecting a location is access to water, especially in a fairly dry area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[222,212,1411,1416,9],"class_list":["post-115555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-agriculture","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115555"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115655,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115555\/revisions\/115655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}