Howdy Zands,
Thanks I reckon it's the green passion fruit i had in my hands?
I have a few veggies and herbs planted. Sweet potato is running wild as a ground cover to surpress the weeds and to keep the soil moist. Lemon grass, rosemarry, rue, parsley, chillies and cabbage. I will plant a bunch of bananas to provide shade to moisten the air, creating a more humid ambient Diversification is key, Zands
Hi
A friend of mine has boniato running as a ground cover. Is yours boniato or a different one? All are tubers I guess.
So green passion fruit? Nice. Never had one. I just mulched a mango tree with a banana I had to cut down because it was shading another mango tree. Like I said.... I see bananas as very fast growing helper plants. They produce shade, air moisture, fruit and mulch. For your prize bananas I guess cow manure. But bananas do well with cheap fertilizer the kind with no minors and with quick release nitrogen. They can do OK with nothing too!
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Hi Zands,
That's cool...I don't grow them. That variety is poplular in the Caribbean. My is a large and sweet tuber that takes 8 months to mature, I will harvest them around September.
After harvest, I work the soil and fertilize the soil with manure for planting on the same day...it's rainy season by then, so i must take advantage of that
Nope, I meant immature green fruits
After harvesting the banana...I took the mother plant and chopped it into pieces with a machete...to recycle back the nutrients into the soil again...banana is definitely a good source for mulch and your mango tree is going to love it
I basically use well decomposed cow manure, when planting a banana plant...to enrich the soil, then a few weeks later, i give the plant a nice dose of NPK. Some times we will find a complete NPK for only bananas, that is used commercially from the cooperative. They do ok with nothing...takes longer to get them to produce.