04-29-2013, 06:50 PM
While i agree that plant-and-abandon is not the best grow plan, I think some trees would survive. How devastated would you be if you lost all your plantings and had to start over? If that would be a real problem, I would suggest waiting to plant.
Some trees do seem to do OK without supervision. There are a couple of avocados in the never-settled empty lot across from me that I
suspect grew from pits in garbage dumped there; they've depended entirely on rainfall and whatever nutrients were in the rest of the garbage bag. Citrus and bananas are well-adapted to this climate, though they probably won't bear well unless you fertilize.
You might improve the trees' chances by laying cardboard around the trunks(sheet mulching) to reduce weeds. Leave about a foot of open ground around the trunks, so they get rain.
I don't think you said how long it will be before you are here full time. If you'll at least be visiting, you can renew the sheet mulch.
Oh, and the big fern bushes with woody stems are Uluhe, a native plant. But getting rid of glory bushes and bamboo orchids is a public service.
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Some trees do seem to do OK without supervision. There are a couple of avocados in the never-settled empty lot across from me that I
suspect grew from pits in garbage dumped there; they've depended entirely on rainfall and whatever nutrients were in the rest of the garbage bag. Citrus and bananas are well-adapted to this climate, though they probably won't bear well unless you fertilize.
You might improve the trees' chances by laying cardboard around the trunks(sheet mulching) to reduce weeds. Leave about a foot of open ground around the trunks, so they get rain.
I don't think you said how long it will be before you are here full time. If you'll at least be visiting, you can renew the sheet mulch.
Oh, and the big fern bushes with woody stems are Uluhe, a native plant. But getting rid of glory bushes and bamboo orchids is a public service.
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