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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
What is a better source of nutrients for a Banana Plant.
Manure or Grass Clippings, and why ?
I'm not anti-manure, although I am pro-grass, for many reasons aside from nutrients.
I know a banana will quickly grow on a slab of concrete without any soil,
using rocks to stabilize the base and only grass to fertilize the plant.
Grass clipping breakdown fast enough to be a useful source of nutrients for a young plant.
I might be completely wrong, but this is my line of reasoning.
A grazing animal eats the grass and removes some nutrients, but what do they
add to their manure that makes it more beneficial than the grass that they ate ?
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I'm not saying I wouldn't use grass clippings... but one reason I refrain from doing it is that I would potentially be adding a lot of grass and weed seed to my soil. I know you mentioned an example that didn't include soil, but that's my reasoning. Using composted manure (which I just put on my plants today) adds immediate organic matter and nutrients to the soil... here in FL that's a big deal for a bunch of reasons. Manure is basically just grass already broken down with nutrients that are immediately available to the plants. Adding the grass by itself means you have to wait for microorganisms to break it down. A lot of grass can cause anaerobic activity. Maybe b/c you are tropical that isn't that much of an issue?
