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Originally Posted by PC
Not sure when or how long you lived in Eastern Central FL but all of Florida has a rainy season summer, starting approximately June 1- November 30. Starts out slow, (in June) then accelerates in July, Aug., Sept., gradually slowing down in Oct. and Nov. Bananas just absolutely love those months and need no help with watering or feeding then. It's when it cools down in the late Fall through the Winter that the cool and dry can slow them down to a type of almost dormancy and if the temp really dips down with cold fronts in Dec. through Feb
they can get severely damaged or even die. Maybe when you lived there it was an unusual and not typical dry stretch in the summer?
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all of north florida has been in a draught for better than a month.
I have 2 banana circles, one is more like a banana oval. 15 ft in diameter. I started the first one last year. love em, my property is big enough I don't worry about the perfect circle.
last fall I threw 1 1/2 ft. of leaves over several hundred banana leaves and with the several hundred banana leaves that hit the circle last year and after composting I have a layer that is barely 3 inches thick.