Thought it would be interesting to see what people grow.
Moving back to Puna, I'm excited about the chance to even grow something. Not much land to grow things over here on Oahu.
We have "community gardens" that your plot is literally like 15' x 15' and the waiting list to get on them can be years depending on which community garden you want to grow in.
The price is right for what you get. $1.00 per month. It's just getting your piece of land that is difficult here on Oahu.
I can't wait to move back to Puna.
So what do you grow?
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Small lot, so only have; food crops:
navel oranges, tangerine, avocados, bilimbi, guava, moringa, cassava, papaya, red, green & varigated ti, taro, weed cherry tomatoes, bitter melon, Hawaiian peppers, small pinapple patch, edible ginger
and yet to bear:
coffee, mountain apple, miracle berry, sapote, meyer limes
also landscape plants:
red & pink ginger, roses, red & cream donia (anyone know what this is?), various crotons, chenile plant, white bleeding hearts, plumeria, anthurium, snow on the mount, hibiscus, christmas palms, finger palms, dracenea, and a couple of flowering bushes I don't know
AND one monster thorny Euphorbia lactea I would love to get rid of.....if any one wants....
Edited by - carey on 12/11/2007 19:10:40
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Very impressive Carey. You have stuff growing that I've never even heard of (Bilimbi, Moringa, Chenile & that Cream Donia).
Are they edible? Is there any medicinal purposes for the above things? (Sorry for the stupid question)
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Edited by - damon on 12/11/2007 19:21:02
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Damon, most of the stuff was here when we bought (we haven't killed many 
The bilimbi is in the starfruit family, and is sourer than the sour starfruit...like a crunchy lemon. We use it in fruit salads, bilimbi-ade & in fish & chicken curry soups (the more traditional use)
Our moringa tree is just coming back from a very bad trim job before we bought, and the storm last week allowed us to donate a bunch of starts, as braches flew! The little leaflets are very high in vitamins & such & we use them like spinach, in tossed salads, stir fry, and soups...
Chenile plant is decorative plant with long fuzzy red things & Donia (this is the Filipino word...don't know what else it is called) is a fuzzy pionsettia looking member of the coffee family (but not cherry) that has curly colored bracts...
We are more than willing to share cuttings & such....still working on getting our yard back into shape (the owner had rented the house out, and the landscaping that neighbors say used to be "exquisite" years ago, was not kept up, the Hapu'u are long gone  .
After 2 years we are still finding things like orchids & anthuriums that have come back with a little care & uncovering....)
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Basil, tomatoes, parsely, rosemary,peppers of a couple types, orchids of many types, bananas, pineapples, papayas, philipino orchid, all sorts of alien and invasive plants we are trying to eliminate, aloe, noni, plumerias, guava
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I think the " what do you not grow " list would be a lot shorter.
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What one grows in Puna depends s-o-o-o much on where the land is, especially: lower or higher elevation? lava or soil?
We're less than 100' elevation with pahoehoe lava.
Banana, avocado, mango, and, of course coconut, do great. So do white pineapple.
We've got citrus coming along, but that has taken a lot more TLC (the roots really struggle with the lava).
Our plumerias are a disaster and we're pulling them out.
Puakinekine, pikake, and hibiscus are great.
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This is my first post here. I have a nursery on Oahu but I am going to move to HPP in the next couple of months. Plan to bring some plants with me. Are there plants that anyone is interested in trying from Oahu? I plan to fill a G-van with assorted plants that I want but I think that there will still be some room.
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What sort of plants do you grow in your nursery, Tptplyr1? You might be able to start a nursery over here.
We just put in a small vegetable patch so there's lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, beets, radishes, pole beans, horseradish, lima beans, collards, strawberries and squash struggling out there now. I don't know if the squash is going to survive the rain, it has kinda been melting these past several days.
So far the pole beans have been doing the best.
Otherwise, there's bananas, coffee, coconuts, guava, peaches, apples, pineapples and avocado trees but that's sorta permaculture since it just grows on it's own.
"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
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We grow herbs, some veges, ferns, ornamental flowers among other things. I will probably grow on a small scale but really want to get out of the nursery business on a large scale. We are suppliers for Home Depot, Lowes and other retail stores on Oahu. Not really wanting to continue on that scale. Thank you for the suggestion though. And who knows what the future holds?
dean
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