01-22-2019, 12:32 PM
For sweet potato, most of the growers on island rotate with dryland taro to reduce the infestation loads...as sweet potato are like candy to many ground pests &, of course pigs...
Hopefully you also have avocados that are ripe in different seasons, otherwise you will have a few months of feast & many lean months...
We have a really small Keaau lot, so have a fairly limited variety of food trees, but they include: allspice, apples (Anna & Dorset), avocado (2 different seasonal trees), basil, bilimbi, cassava, cherry (acerola & guyana), clove, coffee, cucamelon, grapefruit, kabocha pumpkin, lemon, lilikoi, lime (tahitian & 2 different finger varieties), malabar chestnuts, mangos (Julie & Glenn), miracle berry, moringa, mulberry, oranges (3 different season varieties), oregano, papaya, peach, pineapple, rangpur, rosemary, stevia, strawberry, tangerines, taro (3 varieties), tomato, vanilla
We did have banana, twice they were hit with bunchy top, we did as advised between the times & allowed 3 years of fallow...so we are not going to grow them, at least for a long while
We have often had Hawaiian pepper, but not right now & had had cinnamon, but that got fatally whacked by a weed whacker & was a lot of work for a cheap spice...
ETA: we also have bees, for pollination, but sometimes they will provide some sweetness to us!
Hopefully you also have avocados that are ripe in different seasons, otherwise you will have a few months of feast & many lean months...
We have a really small Keaau lot, so have a fairly limited variety of food trees, but they include: allspice, apples (Anna & Dorset), avocado (2 different seasonal trees), basil, bilimbi, cassava, cherry (acerola & guyana), clove, coffee, cucamelon, grapefruit, kabocha pumpkin, lemon, lilikoi, lime (tahitian & 2 different finger varieties), malabar chestnuts, mangos (Julie & Glenn), miracle berry, moringa, mulberry, oranges (3 different season varieties), oregano, papaya, peach, pineapple, rangpur, rosemary, stevia, strawberry, tangerines, taro (3 varieties), tomato, vanilla
We did have banana, twice they were hit with bunchy top, we did as advised between the times & allowed 3 years of fallow...so we are not going to grow them, at least for a long while
We have often had Hawaiian pepper, but not right now & had had cinnamon, but that got fatally whacked by a weed whacker & was a lot of work for a cheap spice...
ETA: we also have bees, for pollination, but sometimes they will provide some sweetness to us!