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Old 03-05-2008, 11:52 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: Best Mulch For Banana Plants????

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Compost from the City Landfill.
Our landfill grinds a lot of extra trash with the mulch as a consequence of homeowner greenwaste cans used for garbage and it getting mixed. They are not allowed to sell/give away the mulch, so they use it to cover garbage with.

The local electric company chips up tree trimmings from around the powerlines and provides it to area residents for free, without the added garbage.

Talk to tree trimming companies. Many pay to get rid of it.

I bought a chipper and generate my own mulch.
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There is no excuse for still having grass. I haven't mowed in 20 years. With all that space, I could plant another 100 bananas.
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