mrbungalow

Living in Ireland, you should also choose the right species. Musa Sikkimensis outperforms musa basjoo in terms of growth here in Norway. Overwintering Sikkimensis is not as reliable, but mine survived this winter and have already pushed new growth (until we got a cold-spell a few days ago that is!). All musa basjoo, except one survived here too, but an underground-river during the winter-rains took the toll on that last one!

The soil here is very acidic, and sometimes clay-like. The bananas seem to grow anyway, and I just mix in a little top-quality soil with the native soil in the planting-hole. I also fertilize throughout the summer.

Erlend

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