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Originally Posted by Janelle525
This was happening to my bananas when I wasn't using mulch, they were planted in native soil that was really sandy and drained really fast. Bananas come from the rainforest which is very fertile. So I attempted to mimick that by piling up mulch around the base- anything, grass clippings, leaves, spent banana leaves and stalks, vegetable and fruit waste even wood chips. Then my bananas have always looked good ever since. I also collect my urine in the summer months to feed them as I don't like dumping a lot of synthetic fertilizer as it makes it's way out to the ocean where it feeds toxic algae.
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This is great to hear. at first I definitely mulched and used store bought soil, at least as an amendment. I was using grass as mulch, not sure that was helping. In any case, this might be it. The soil looks like the water runs mostly off and doesn't get down into the soil We haven't had a good rain here in a while that has really soaked the ground.