Stinky!

2nd Fertilizing of the fruit trees and monthy of the Bananas this AM. AS nasty as some chem fertilizers can smell they don't touch the stench of a good Organic one with rotted shellfish, fish, blood and bone;>!
I'm cautiously optimistic about getting fruit this yr from the Dwarf Namwa and FHIA2340. COmpared to the local ornamental Cavendish(Ornamental because while they're Hardy, they require morethan a yr from Bloom to Ripening so....)they've more leaves and bulk. 'DN' has been known to produce fairly well two counties over so I've hope. The Ag station Banana(bred to resist diseases but not a Frankenfruit)is one of two I'm growing but the Honduras staion plant(SH3240)got stem rot this Spring and died back to the corm, though lots of pups have replaced the main trunk. Maybe ext yr....
Here you can either grow Bananas either as a Landscape plant or as a Biannual Fruit using cultivars that bloom and fruit shorter than 9 months. You either containerize or dig and store at the end of the 1st Growing season then plant out after Frost. I'm sending off for a plnt I've had on call since last Spring, the 'Veinte Cohol' a Banana that supposedly doesn't require all this to fruit here....
Cheers,
Pat

Stinky!

2nd Fertilizing of the fruit trees and monthy of the Bananas this AM. AS nasty as some chem fertilizers can smell they don't touch the stench of a good Organic one with rotted shellfish, fish, blood and bone;>!
I'm cautiously optimistic about getting fruit this yr from the Dwarf Namwa and FHIA2340. COmpared to the local ornamental Cavendish(Ornamental because while they're Hardy, they require morethan a yr from Bloom to Ripening so....)they've more leaves and bulk. 'DN' has been known to produce fairly well two counties over so I've hope. The Ag station Banana(bred to resist diseases but not a Frankenfruit)is one of two I'm growing but the Honduras staion plant(SH3240)got stem rot this Spring and died back to the corm, though lots of pups have replaced the main trunk. Maybe ext yr....
Here you can either grow Bananas either as a Landscape plant or as a Biannual Fruit using cultivars that bloom and fruit shorter than 9 months. You either containerize or dig and store at the end of the 1st Growing season then plant out after Frost. I'm sending off for a plnt I've had on call since last Spring, the 'Veinte Cohol' a Banana that supposedly doesn't require all this to fruit here....
Cheers,
Pat