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sputinc7 · 05-02-2016, 08:38 AM

I would recommend a more nutritious mulch than wood chips, unless you use chemical fertilizers.
It's a small road trip for you, but the Sarno rd. landfill in Melbourne has large truckloads of compost for $15. It isn't much as mulch with all the sand in it, but will feed your nanners well. Unless you incorporate the material into the soil (sand) it will still drain to the center of the earth, only it won't dry from the top as fast. Try using your grass clippings around them during the summer when they will rot, my bananas grow roots all thru them. Or, try putting down the wood chips, and covering them with some of the compost or grass clippings, or both.

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