Growing Food in Puna

[unknownjulie]

I am experimenting with some veggies and want to do as little work as possible. I bought some kind of hot pepper tree that is really a great producer and the insects stay far away from it. The problem is that the peppers are practically too hot to eat, so I started just chopping off the ends of the peppers and only using those. The ends are not nearly as hot. I suppose this is wasteful, but it grows on it's own, and I dont need to cultivate it! The insects wont even touch the leaves, so I decided to eat one of them to see why -and yep, the leaves even have a hot peppery flavor.