Pia
09-21-2017, 12:22 PM
Hi, I'm Pia and I live in NW Uruguay, subtropical (it feels a lot like Santa Rosa, Calif. though a lot more heavy rain and hotter summer days here). Was given a banana start and told it has small, but tasty fruit. I'm looking for more info on best plants to grow with bananas and maybe one day I'll figure out the latin name of my banana. So far, I'm thinking of planting one borage, several types of beans and one type of pea around the banana.
I'm making an urban food forest. Started with an abused lot made of ugly fill. In year three now, have six mature plants/two types of maracuya de Nicaragua and maybe a dozen self sown starts underneath where I drop the fruit I don't eat, two types of guava (one is native, the pineapple guava and one is more sensitive to cold, have two of each), one type of fig, one pitanga (suriname cherry), one avocado (a large, green skinned type) and three pecan (from seeds, 1 meter height now) started. The native guava is setting flowers now and the maracuya produced a lot of fruit 2016/2017. Uruguay's seasons are almost exactly opposite that of North America. Though, our summers are longer and normally hot. Winter was relatively mild this year, had a lot of spring and summer like days mixed in. Raining regularly.
Will post some pics today.
Que pase bien!
I'm making an urban food forest. Started with an abused lot made of ugly fill. In year three now, have six mature plants/two types of maracuya de Nicaragua and maybe a dozen self sown starts underneath where I drop the fruit I don't eat, two types of guava (one is native, the pineapple guava and one is more sensitive to cold, have two of each), one type of fig, one pitanga (suriname cherry), one avocado (a large, green skinned type) and three pecan (from seeds, 1 meter height now) started. The native guava is setting flowers now and the maracuya produced a lot of fruit 2016/2017. Uruguay's seasons are almost exactly opposite that of North America. Though, our summers are longer and normally hot. Winter was relatively mild this year, had a lot of spring and summer like days mixed in. Raining regularly.
Will post some pics today.
Que pase bien!