Sheila
12-24-2015, 07:53 PM
Hoping to gather ideas for ways to grow bananas (and other fruit) on our new property. If you were starting out with a new property, had some money and no one was watching, what would you do?
It is a 1/4 acre city lot in Orlando, FL (9b?) The small home sits a little further back which means I have a smaller rear yard. :( The back yard is about half sun/half shade. The front yard is super sunny buuuut not sure I want to be those people. Previous owners weren't gardeners so the yard is a blank slate.
In Canada I could confidently say I had a green thumb, but down here I have a black thumb with the little white fuzz and fruit flies drifting around it. I feel confident landscaping, current front yard looks really nice but my blueberries look like Charlie Brown's Xmas tree. So there is a skill to growing food down here that I lack. Probably skills. Ya...probably my landscaping skills are mostly "if you water it, they will grow" which works well down here.
So here I am, new house, okay landscaper, zero luck with fruit/veggies thus far in Florida, with a blank slate, dollar bills, no sense of style and no real desire to have style. And before I lay trowel to sand... any thoughts on what you would do knowing what you know now? Sprinklers? Wind chimes to aid the feng shui?
Let me insert a banana smilie because they look awesome and click send.
:islandsharkbanana:
It is a 1/4 acre city lot in Orlando, FL (9b?) The small home sits a little further back which means I have a smaller rear yard. :( The back yard is about half sun/half shade. The front yard is super sunny buuuut not sure I want to be those people. Previous owners weren't gardeners so the yard is a blank slate.
In Canada I could confidently say I had a green thumb, but down here I have a black thumb with the little white fuzz and fruit flies drifting around it. I feel confident landscaping, current front yard looks really nice but my blueberries look like Charlie Brown's Xmas tree. So there is a skill to growing food down here that I lack. Probably skills. Ya...probably my landscaping skills are mostly "if you water it, they will grow" which works well down here.
So here I am, new house, okay landscaper, zero luck with fruit/veggies thus far in Florida, with a blank slate, dollar bills, no sense of style and no real desire to have style. And before I lay trowel to sand... any thoughts on what you would do knowing what you know now? Sprinklers? Wind chimes to aid the feng shui?
Let me insert a banana smilie because they look awesome and click send.
:islandsharkbanana: