Pia

Hi, I'm Pia and I live in NW Uruguay, subtropical (it feels a lot like Santa Rosa, Calif. though a lot more heavy rain and hotter summer days here). Was given a banana start and told it has small, but tasty fruit. I'm looking for more info on best plants to grow with bananas and maybe one day I'll figure out the latin name of my banana. So far, I'm thinking of planting one borage, several types of beans and one type of pea around the banana.

I'm making an urban food forest. Started with an abused lot made of ugly fill. In year three now, have six mature plants/two types of maracuya de Nicaragua and maybe a dozen self sown starts underneath where I drop the fruit I don't eat, two types of guava (one is native, the pineapple guava and one is more sensitive to cold, have two of each), one type of fig, one pitanga (suriname cherry), one avocado (a large, green skinned type) and three pecan (from seeds, 1 meter height now) started. The native guava is setting flowers now and the maracuya produced a lot of fruit 2016/2017. Uruguay's seasons are almost exactly opposite that of North America. Though, our summers are longer and normally hot. Winter was relatively mild this year, had a lot of spring and summer like days mixed in. Raining regularly.

Will post some pics today.

Que pase bien!

Pia

What a warm welcome from all of you. I have typing issues so I won't reply to all of your responses, but I do appreciate every one of you.

I forgot to note the zones I'm in here - Central and South America Hardiness Zones AHS Heat Zone 8 USDA Zone 9b

It appears we are having one, possibly the last, bout of winter this weekend. Was going to plant seed, but... I'll keep reading and planning my plots instead. Did get the ginseng seed into a cold side of the house bed two days ago.

Been perusing some of your photos and plant lists, thinking this forum is a great resource. Thank you for being!

edwmax

Welcome to the bunch! ... We do have a Good time
.

__________________

Pia

Here's a couple photos of the young banana I was given last year (as winter commenced). The youngest sprout is growing, the larger one not. I moved them to a sunnier location with more wind protection about five weeks ago as the original location was receiving less sun. There's a polycarbonate panel breaking wind from the SSE/SSW side of this space. The house blocks wind from the NNE/NNW side and tall wall of the neighbor's blocks wind from the SE side.





There's an Uruguay (pineapple) guava to the left - it's going to move to the back; the flowering patch of daikon next to the banana will be harvested for seed in the next few weeks; the freesia is going to move out and then peas, beans and borage will occupy that space around the banana.

Pia

So far, what I've read I have to say this is true! Lots of good banana cheer going on.

HMelendez

Welcome to the banana gang!.....

__________________