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Originally Posted by Ahava
Beautiful. I loved the way you boxed it all in. It looks nice. I'd love to be sitting on the bench about now. What sort of musa is Obino l'Ewai? Is it a dessert or a plantain?
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It is a type of French Plantain from Nigeria.
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Originally Posted by JFK
How deep did you cultivate below ground level before you built the boxes? Or I guess another way of putting it is how deep does the total growing space need to be when using raised beds?
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I didn't make the boxes, they are just there as part of the student garden areas (which no one else uses) so I don't know how they went about prepping them. The soil around here is usually pretty good though, so I'm sure the roots of my plants go into the ground soil below the boxes. In the large open area though, I could only easily dig down about 1-2ft before hitting harder stuff, I don't think it will be a problem for the bananas but I dug big holes for each one and amended the areas with composted manure and straight compost.