Loading ...When one gets 150 inches of rain a year, the yard work is NEVER finished! Took out 30 rubbish trees and had them chipped up and spread the mulch among the rocky lava and stumps in the back. Mango tree was topped so it spreads low and horizontal for easy pickin’s in the future. In two years it has not yet produced mangos… not that I care a lot. I’m allergic to mangos and cannot eat them. My friends get any that appear. Lychee tree is abundant with fruit now, with friends salivating over them. I’m allergic to Lychees also.
Guavas had to be cut back as they were leaning over the fence and dropping on the neighbor’s nice yard. Got a few tangerines off that trimmed back tree. Football sized papaya before the tree rotted from all the rain we had. Several more papaya trees coming along. But the real ‘rock star’ is the lemon tree that seems to have roots down a lava crack into a lava tube with plenty of moisture. The lemon tree has produced continuously for the past year… hundreds and hundreds of small lemons. You wonder why I’m a sourpuss??
We’ve had lots of rainy days this winter, so cannot get the yard work done, and the jungle keeps creeping in around the edges. On the rare sunny day I’m out doing aerobic yard work… pumping green waste to the wheelbarrow and pickup truck. It’s easy to rip out three truckloads of waste in a week. But it’s getting there slowly. Roughly 50% of the back yard can now be mowed, around the lava domes and rocks. Cutting back the vines that creep over the fence from the jungle lot next door is a constant battle.
Retirement? I’m working harder than ever on nice days! 🙂