02-28-2007, 12:40 PM
Hi Scott,
We don't have much soil. We had to bring in cinders and we are currently trying to order another load of cinder soil. We also decided to plant in crevices and also made a raised bed for a vegetable garden and hope to make more when we move there in a few years. We are pumping alot of plants into the ground that seem to be surviving although I must say, our citris trees need magnesium. We actually plant more of what does well and sometimes give up on what doesn't. We have figs, plums, mountain apple, `ulu (breadfruit), bamboo (non invasive), sugi pines lining the lot, a whole collection of ti's, herbs and medicinals. I'm also trying to create a leimaking area which is great for preserving the greenery we already had on the lot some of this lei making greenery also is medicine and it was already there on the lot so we will try to preserve that. Soil is definitley an ammenity on our lot and we've also tried to bring in mulch from the county which can be scary cause I heard there can also be termites in it but it helps to hold in the cinders and keep them from washing away so I'm taking my chances since we don't yet have a real house there. I've decided that we will try our best to keep things as organic as possible. Our farm is still young so we don't have anything really fruiting yet. but everything except the citrus seems to do well. Our neighbors have citrus trees going off with fruit though so it is probably the magnesium deficiancy. We have lots of citrus but need to fertilize them which I did two weekends ago so I'm keeping an eye on them. Our one koa tree seems to be surviving although it looked for a while like it had a wood borer in it. We just let it go cause we didn't want to use any poison on it and it is still growing. We also bought a small chipper so we can trim back the plants we don't want and turn it into soil. For a long time, we hauled the cinders by wheelbarrow but now have a second hand little tractor with a trailer so now we can get more trees in the ground further to the back of our lot. Good luck Scott. Maybe we will meet one day.Welcome to you and Julie to the neghborhood.
Just to let everyone know. Since we have such an influx of people who want to move here. Currently, 90% of our food in Hawai`i is imported. If you would like to be safe in the future (re: National Security on our harbors) you might want to consider growing your own food. There is no better time then the present to start growing fruit trees. This way we don't have to rely on the barges coming in every week to eat.
Edited by - momi on 02/28/2007 17:04:59
We don't have much soil. We had to bring in cinders and we are currently trying to order another load of cinder soil. We also decided to plant in crevices and also made a raised bed for a vegetable garden and hope to make more when we move there in a few years. We are pumping alot of plants into the ground that seem to be surviving although I must say, our citris trees need magnesium. We actually plant more of what does well and sometimes give up on what doesn't. We have figs, plums, mountain apple, `ulu (breadfruit), bamboo (non invasive), sugi pines lining the lot, a whole collection of ti's, herbs and medicinals. I'm also trying to create a leimaking area which is great for preserving the greenery we already had on the lot some of this lei making greenery also is medicine and it was already there on the lot so we will try to preserve that. Soil is definitley an ammenity on our lot and we've also tried to bring in mulch from the county which can be scary cause I heard there can also be termites in it but it helps to hold in the cinders and keep them from washing away so I'm taking my chances since we don't yet have a real house there. I've decided that we will try our best to keep things as organic as possible. Our farm is still young so we don't have anything really fruiting yet. but everything except the citrus seems to do well. Our neighbors have citrus trees going off with fruit though so it is probably the magnesium deficiancy. We have lots of citrus but need to fertilize them which I did two weekends ago so I'm keeping an eye on them. Our one koa tree seems to be surviving although it looked for a while like it had a wood borer in it. We just let it go cause we didn't want to use any poison on it and it is still growing. We also bought a small chipper so we can trim back the plants we don't want and turn it into soil. For a long time, we hauled the cinders by wheelbarrow but now have a second hand little tractor with a trailer so now we can get more trees in the ground further to the back of our lot. Good luck Scott. Maybe we will meet one day.Welcome to you and Julie to the neghborhood.
Just to let everyone know. Since we have such an influx of people who want to move here. Currently, 90% of our food in Hawai`i is imported. If you would like to be safe in the future (re: National Security on our harbors) you might want to consider growing your own food. There is no better time then the present to start growing fruit trees. This way we don't have to rely on the barges coming in every week to eat.
Edited by - momi on 02/28/2007 17:04:59