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sputinc7 · 10-12-2016, 10:04 PM

Me?
It looks to me like it may impede root growth... How deep is the barrel in there? Banana roots don't go very deep.
I am still making silage in the old garbage can. (Silage is not compost. Different process of decomp completely.) I don't make the tea, although I may in the future, I let it rot enough it will hold moisture then dump it around my plant. But just today I took someone's advice... Too tired to look up whose... about covering the pile of clippings with a tarp so it doesn't dry out. Gonna see how that works. It's the dryer season here again, so it all turns to straw if you don't do something.

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sputinc7 Location: Palm Bay, Florida Find me on the map! Zone: 9b Name: Steve Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 1,394 BananaBucks : 101,898 Feedback: 3 / 100% Said "Thanks" 352 Times Was Thanked 2,430 Times in 971 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 295 Times	Re: Silage as fertilizer... Me? It looks to me like it may impede root growth... How deep is the barrel in there? Banana roots don't go very deep. I am still making silage in the old garbage can. (Silage is not compost. Different process of decomp completely.) I don't make the tea, although I may in the future, I let it rot enough it will hold moisture then dump it around my plant. But just today I took someone's advice... Too tired to look up whose... about covering the pile of clippings with a tarp so it doesn't dry out. Gonna see how that works. It's the dryer season here again, so it all turns to straw if you don't do something. __________________ If you lose your head and give up, you neither live nor win. https://sputinc7.wixsite.com/covwc Varieties I supposedly bought: Manzano, Cavendish, Blue Java, Sweetheart, and Gros Michel. What it seems I actually have: Brazilian, Cavendish, Namwah, Dwarf Red, Gros Michel, Pisang Ceylon, Veinte Cohol and SH 3640, and American Goldfinger. FHIA 1, Paggi and FHIA 17... Always room for one more.