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Originally Posted by Iunepeace
OK cool; how long have you been growing bananas?
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Maybe about 10 years now but between 2006 and 2009 I spent a lot of time working out of state and my plants really suffered.
My wife is from Jamaica, and I started growing fruit trees and sugarcane so she wouldn't feel so homesick as there are not a lot of Jamaicans living down here in the Keys.
Up on the mainland, in an agricultural district called the Redlands (Southwest Miami), is a place called Going Bananas.
Welcome to Going Bananas of Homestead, Florida!
The owner has five acres of bananas where I was able to buy what I am currently growing.
I try to compost as much as I can to condition the soil and only throw a little fertilizer around them each month.
We love Blue Mountain coffee and I mix all the grounds into the compost so that the plants have a little "Jamaica" in them. We like to think that is the reason they are doing so well
