Tropical Garden T

Location: 

• Triangular Garden between Ulu Hideaway Eco-Hut, Lono Hale and Back Neighbor Border.
• Cane Truck (Garden R)

Lodgings and/or Facilities in areas of Garden

• Lono Hale
• Ulu Hideaway Eco-Hut

This MIXED Garden has the following plants:

• Bamboo
• Mexican Sunflowers
• Tulsi

This MIXED Garden has the following plants:

• Citrus
• Jaboticaba
• Sapodilla
• Papaya

Maintenance Activities For This Garden:

• Main Weeds: Cane Grass, Stink Maile, Fire Ants, Mexican Sunflowers, choking, creeping and climbing weeds
  • Spray Soapy Water mix before working in this area
  • 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 climbers from off plants carefully.
  • Remove all creeping weeds from around the whole all garden beds and walkways.
  • Remove Mexican Sunflower from border - bring to crater slope at road front

• Identification and Labeling:
  • Tag and label  transplanted trees with bright colored tree ribbon
  • Label the tree with date it was transplanted
  • Update plant pages if any are added or removed deleted from the garden.

• Borders & Maintenance:
  • Keeping the wood borders free of weeds and mosses, weed whack the area of large grasses to keep walkways clear
  • Plant low decoratives or edibles between trees so as not to obscure the view.
  • In the Tulsi patch, rake carefully in between each tree
  • Mulch using brown paper bags, carefully placed around each tree trunk
  • Wet brown bags and place heavy branches on top to secure them
  • From the rakings, place bamboo leaves and any other brown leaves on top of wetted paper bags to complete the mulching.
• Harvesting:
  • Harvesting fruit in season and Bamboo regularly promotes budding and new growth.
  • Encourage guests/volunteers to grab food from these areas also to harvest to and eat
  • If the trees are getting too tall to harvest, check with the director first about topping a tree or if you have any ideas for new edibles to plant.