08-23-2013, 04:26 PM
If you are not going to build within a year DO NOT mess with the lot by clearing the land, otherwise the lot will very quickly grow amazing amounts of fast growing invasive plants you will spend the rest of your life on that land fighting. Left to itself the land here will just slowly grow Ohia trees and ferns, but once you mess with the ground cover and start moving things around with heavy equipment every non native seed hanging out dormant on your land will sprout and just grow and grow.
There are examples of this all over Puna, we watched a neighbor's lot get completely overgrown in just a few years. He ripped and rolled 75% of his lot, put a driveway, well, and cesspool and built a tiny cabin to live in while he built a house. After running out of money and work, he moved to the mainland and within two years so many albizia and trash trees had grown up you can't even find the driveway. These are now 20+ foot trees!
Carol
There are examples of this all over Puna, we watched a neighbor's lot get completely overgrown in just a few years. He ripped and rolled 75% of his lot, put a driveway, well, and cesspool and built a tiny cabin to live in while he built a house. After running out of money and work, he moved to the mainland and within two years so many albizia and trash trees had grown up you can't even find the driveway. These are now 20+ foot trees!
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb