Location:
- Ocean View Garden front, left, and behind Ocean View
Lodgings and/or Facilities in areas of Garden:
This MIXED Garden has the following plants:
Maintenance Activities For This Garden:
- Main Weeds: Cane Grass, Fire Ants, Stink Maile, Koster's Curse, chokers, climbers
- Eradicate cane grass as close to the base as possible using a Kama and pickax out if accessible
- Use a Kama to cut the climbers and the chokers at the plant base to kill them. Remove off plant carefully.
- Remove all creeping weeds from around the whole garden beds.
- Identification and Labeling:
- Tag and label transplanted trees with bright color tree ribbon,
- Date the tree with date it was transplanted (only babies so we can see the growth process)
- Update plant pages if any are added or deleted from the garden.
- Borders & Maintenance:
- Keeping the wood and fence borders free of weeds and mosses, weed whack the area of large grasses to keep walkways low and clear
- Plant Okinawa Spinach & sweet potato in all bare areas
- Thin out Mexican Sunflower
- Plant Guava on top of slopes
- Prune Guava trees to keep out of the way
- Keep front full with low growing decoratives and Pineapple
- Maintain view of ocean
- Widen path to clothing optional area
- Add Heliconia and Ginger for privacy
- Weed wack platform for lounging
- Add groundcover around lounging area
- Replace broken or difficult steps with packed and staked tires
- Weekly Trail work: Steps are carved out flat and clear of falling guava fruit and leaves
- Harvesting:
- Harvest Guava fruit when in season to keep walkways clear
- Harvest Bamboo under supervision of Director when gets overgrown
- Harvest Pineapple when bright Gold or Purple (White Pineapple) and smells sweet, remove after harvested and composted