Tropical Zone Gardening: The Coconut Wireless - chat thread 3, 1 by Konagirl

Konagirl wrote:
We were on the mainland for 3 weeks and returned to find that our parched surroundings here in Kona had turned green. We're next to a large pasture that was dry as a bone, so we are relaxing a bit about the possible fire hazard. Mangoes are going great, lemons and oranges forming fruit, and all my lettuce bolted. Not much luck with tomatoes here because of too much humidity and nematodes in the soil, so I'm trying pots with a University of Hawaii hybrid, but they are pretty pitiful. Shower trees and orchid trees are in bloom here and monkeypod beginning to get new leaves.