Bananas_are_awesome
05-20-2020, 05:45 AM
....and I don`t find a sitemap anywhere?
How can I see all the different boards so that I can put questions into the right board?
To find this board I had to go to "new posts" and since there were other newcomers I was shown their new post and also this board.
But is there no list of boards anywhere?
Short introduction:
I live in northern italy, my bananas grow outdoors in the ground in USDA Zone 8. They were sold to me as Musa basjoo but they are my first and only bananas and I cannot tell species or varieties.
I have had this banana patch for 4 years now and learned a lot about bananas from observation.
They are greedy for once, they suck the soil dry for nutrients and water and nothing else grows under bananas, not even weed. I have tried different underplantings since it is the ugly bare stems and sucked dry soil that I look at when I stand up close- but bananas outconquer everything else.
I also learned that bananas are awesome mulch material, there is so much of it and the stuff decays quickly. However, I am stuck with hand-shredding if I want it small enough to use around other, smaller plants. And that is work to go crazy off, I wish some ingenious engineer would build a banana shredder that delivers small pieces but no porridge- and collects the juice. Alas nope.
my feeding plan for 4 years consisted of horn shavings and mulch and a tiny bit of mineral fertiliser to snack on immediately in spring, before the horn shavings become available. I learned that you cannot overfeed bananas- I certainly never managed to do so. I can throw very much of the hornshavings and they just get happier and happier without any discoloration or other signs of too much N.
Last year I put a 15cm-20 layer of home-made compost on top of it all and after only a week that compost layer was full of banana roots, no more crumbly compost on top. More a root carpet.
Awesome stuff, bananas.
How can I see all the different boards so that I can put questions into the right board?
To find this board I had to go to "new posts" and since there were other newcomers I was shown their new post and also this board.
But is there no list of boards anywhere?
Short introduction:
I live in northern italy, my bananas grow outdoors in the ground in USDA Zone 8. They were sold to me as Musa basjoo but they are my first and only bananas and I cannot tell species or varieties.
I have had this banana patch for 4 years now and learned a lot about bananas from observation.
They are greedy for once, they suck the soil dry for nutrients and water and nothing else grows under bananas, not even weed. I have tried different underplantings since it is the ugly bare stems and sucked dry soil that I look at when I stand up close- but bananas outconquer everything else.
I also learned that bananas are awesome mulch material, there is so much of it and the stuff decays quickly. However, I am stuck with hand-shredding if I want it small enough to use around other, smaller plants. And that is work to go crazy off, I wish some ingenious engineer would build a banana shredder that delivers small pieces but no porridge- and collects the juice. Alas nope.
my feeding plan for 4 years consisted of horn shavings and mulch and a tiny bit of mineral fertiliser to snack on immediately in spring, before the horn shavings become available. I learned that you cannot overfeed bananas- I certainly never managed to do so. I can throw very much of the hornshavings and they just get happier and happier without any discoloration or other signs of too much N.
Last year I put a 15cm-20 layer of home-made compost on top of it all and after only a week that compost layer was full of banana roots, no more crumbly compost on top. More a root carpet.
Awesome stuff, bananas.