Post-Volcano Hedonisia Links
This is an historical archive page as this garden was destroyed with the Hedonisia Hawaii Eco-Community in the Kilauea volcano eruption in 2018.
These links are to the projects we work on as we prepare to return to our land.
Portland Micro-Community - Virtual Volunteer
EcoFeminist Web Portfolio - Tech Profit Sharing
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
This MIXED Garden has the following plants:
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
offplants carefully. - Remove all creeping weeds from around
the wholeall 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
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- 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
toand 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.