Afternoon…
Spent the afternoon mixing some foliar fertilizer, enough to fill 75 liters worth… I have to say, that if cops suddenly bust in on my house, they might mistake me for a shabu lab… hehehe…
I wasn’t able to fertilize because dark nimbus clouds were hanging overhead… didn’t rain though… then again, if your plants have strong roots they should be able to get water from the deep water tables located beneath the soil…
This time when I took my daily stroll I took my digicam along with me.
Bananas intercropped with mangoes. Making sure I maximize the land use. Not to mention that there is some sentimental value in those mangoes because my dad planted them before he died. I should really put a bench beneath one of those trees, nice place to work with my laptop because it’s a cool and breezy place… then next probably string in some wi-fi… hehehe
This is what’s known as a hill. 2 bananas with a gap of a foot between them. Gap between each hill is 3m. But that depends really on what you’re planting, if it were saba/cardava, it would be 4m per hill.
Banana’s generate about 41 leaves in their lifetime. Banana’s can’t fix their leaves, they just generate new one’s. But if there aren’t enough nutrients they have a hard time being coaxed to generate them. Leaves are one of the main concern of most bananeros, you have to ensure that you have at least 3 leaves remaining in a banana plant once you are nearing harvest, if you are left with just the 40th and 41st, no use in letting that plant live because you won’t get any worthy production out of it anymore.
This seedling I thought to be dead, but after a few sprays of the fertilizer mix, viola, resurrected… hehehe… I have to remark about the resilience of the banana plant… truly sturdy….
This has got to be one of the wierdest things I saw in this plot. Don’t know if it’s a dead goat or somebody’s dead dog.
[…] This is how the banana field looks like right now…compared with last July’s shot These are the shots of the first batch I planted by myself… I’m figuring they’ll be ready for harvest by march… hopefully… […]