Tropical Garden P

Location: 

• Second Terrace to End of Soil Quarry
• Ocean View Garden Front
• Kahuna Cabin Ocean View Garden Front

Lodgings and/or Facilities in areas of Garden:

• Banana Hale
• Avocado Hale
• Ohia Camper
• Kahuna Cabin

This MIXED Garden has the following plants:

• Impatiens
• Banana
• Mexican Sunflower
• Hapu'u Fern
• Sweet Potato

And the following trees:

• Avocado (1)
• Longan
• Brazilian plum
• Lemon
• Breadfruit
• Papaya
• Jabuticaba
• Plumeria
• Malokia
• Rollinia 

Maintenance Activities For This Garden:

• Main Weeds: Cane Grass, Koster's Curse, Stink Maile, Fire Ants, Miconia, chokers, climbers, creepers
  • 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
  • Update plant pages if any are added or deleted from the garden.

• Borders & Maintenance:
  • Keeping the rock borders free of weeds and mosses, weed whack the area of large grasses to keep walkways low and clear
  • Thin out Mexican Sunflower
  • Maintain view of ocean from the bottom behind Banana
  • Keep area behind Banana clear of brush and tarped when in Avocado season
  • Cut down Bananas as they ripen or leaning on lodgings and become a danger, cut up and mulch in banana stand
  • Check for standing water on tarps and remove water
  • If Papaya tree becomes too tall to harvest with fruit picker, top tree to about 6-7 feet, it will regrow new leaves and re-fruit (Check with Director first!)

• Harvesting:
  • Harvest Bananas when ready, cutting down the whole tree and mulching
  • Harvest Avocado daily when in season
  • Harvest Papaya with fruit picker