03-21-2021, 11:50 PM
I'm not sure what the point of ripping a lot is if you don't intend to farm trees that need it. If I remember correctly the guy who put the vineyard at the Volcano winery started by just jackhammering a hole for each individual vine. Once you rip a lot it takes constant continual maintenance to keep the invasives out. You said you wanted a garden, I'm not sure that needs to be ripped either, you're probably going to do raised bed or something.
I guess the key takeaway is that to rip, or not to rip, is a decision that can be made later if you change your mind, but you cannot un-rip a lot. The change (some would say damage) is permanent.
We have two lots that are ripped because they used to be part of a commercial guava farm. We have a third lot which is unripped. The ripped lots look like the mainland and the unripped lot looks like Hawaii. I guess we have the best of both worlds because on the ripped lots we can grow coffee trees etc wherever we want without thinking about it. We can still grow that sort of thing on the unripped lot but it takes finding a fissure etc to put them. One could also do "spot" ripping with a jackhammer etc. We have a neighbor that grows running bamboo but it grows like clumping bamboo because it's limited to the area that was jackhammered.
I guess the key takeaway is that to rip, or not to rip, is a decision that can be made later if you change your mind, but you cannot un-rip a lot. The change (some would say damage) is permanent.
We have two lots that are ripped because they used to be part of a commercial guava farm. We have a third lot which is unripped. The ripped lots look like the mainland and the unripped lot looks like Hawaii. I guess we have the best of both worlds because on the ripped lots we can grow coffee trees etc wherever we want without thinking about it. We can still grow that sort of thing on the unripped lot but it takes finding a fissure etc to put them. One could also do "spot" ripping with a jackhammer etc. We have a neighbor that grows running bamboo but it grows like clumping bamboo because it's limited to the area that was jackhammered.