Easy things to grow at 2000 ft?

[steve1]

Not sure if they are viable or not, but Malama Market in Pahoa sells pigeon peas by the bag next to the beans and chickpeas on the ethnic aisle between the milk and ice cream aisle.

I think they cost about as much as the beans, maybe $3 a pound plus 4.166% for Honolulu.

[fishnchamp1]

Ive never had luck w planting pigeon peas from the supermarket... But the produce so prolifically, after about 6-9 months it will produce a lb of seeds no prob, those can resewn and you can very quickly develop a huge amount of plants for fodder, mulch, and food.

William DeBoe
Palm Beach, FL
Honomu, HI sometime 2015
Moe'uhane Oihana mahi ai

[unknownjulie]

I planted one of those "tomato trees" (not sure of the exact name), off to the side in almost no soil. LIke, I was not caring if it lived or died- since I had read they dont taste so great. Well, lo an behold, then thing is growing like crazy. It might be a plant that would survive. Also, my Hawaiian pepper plant appears to have set it's sights on becoming a tree. How big do these bushes actually get?

[rainyjim]

Tree tomato or solanum betaceum or tamarillo. Another vote here for them "not tasting great".

I'm guessing you mean the hawaiian sweet chili pepper, it can grow quite tall here, in fact, A friend of mine near noni farns road had one she could pick peppers off of from her second story deck!

I sometimes slice abd dice mine and add to my tea in the morning while its brewing gives it a nice 'kick' - i'd try it if you do spicy stuff, texas gal right ; )

[unknownjulie]

I have one of the hot ones. The peppers are so hot (and I like to eat jalapenos raw)- that I cant even eat one. I have to cook them and basically use the water/broth to season the food. I need to get a sweet one also.

[rainyjim]

I'm not to sure why, but the hot ones are called sweet hawaiian chilli peppers even though they're spicy!

[unknownjulie]

Oh, I see. Well, they are really really hot, but it's a pretty tree and seems to be very hardy.

[rainyjim]

I think its very pretty also, I'm amazed at how many peppers they put out - and continuously! I also really like the multicolor rainbow of differing ripeness.

I am currently trying to prune mine back and shape it like an ornamental very spherical foilage with a solo vertical trunk. Kind of reminds me of "painting the roses red"... lol Lewis Carrol