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Originally Posted by beam2050
well dont give up there are other alternatives.
my manzano's and my gros michal, which i think is a dwarf, guit growing good while the cow manure and compost was good [not used up]. i tried putting fresh cow and compost on top with little effect. so i am working with compost tea. but have not done so yet because both are freshly replanted.
but thanks to hurricane erma, i might have stumbled upon a different way of planting. 10 mats so far, planted with 8 different varieties of bananas has been working fantastically in my yard and my soil for most plants. it takes me a week and a half to prepare a hole for a banana. i am working on hole number 11 as we speak.
at this time i am not giving up any information until i know more about what i am doing. maybe november. and i will probably not know totally for 2 to 3 years.
thanks for turning me around about the ph meter, in this it was extremely helpful.
what is your moisture reading the day after it rains? 3 days?
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Yeah I think bananas want a lot of organic matter, and this spot is kinda in a lowish area as far as water pooling goes, but it would always drain real fast. The leaves were always folded as if it's too hot even when I would water it! But a dwarf cavendish I had pretty close to it was doing great. I don't have a moisture meter, I checked the pH of my soil using a method I found for the digital meters. My pH is almost neutral.
I'll be interested to see how your new method turns out! A mat of namwah I is doing really really well and water pools around there when it rains, but again drains very well. So I just piled up compost around it, and the feeder roots are coming up into the compost it's really cool to see it just LOVES compost.