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Commenced:	01/01/2014
Submitted:	20/01/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Couleur Soleil, 638 Rte. Fond Heliot, Ferry, Deshaies, French West Indies, GP
Phone:	0690 58 12 27
Website:	http://guadeloupe-vacation.com
Climate zone:	Wet/Dry Tropical

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adventures in banana circles

Project: Couleur Soleil

Posted by André Rafinon over 10 years ago

Past and present info on our banana circle projects.

1st Banana pit:

.On the downward side of the house, next to a studio, it would get very muddy in the rainy season. After installing the banana circle (with bio-char), it was still muddy, but the banana plants are over 3m's tall and it loos like the sweat-potatoes have stabilized the soil and have taken over that corner of the yard. No longer muddy

2nd Banana Pit:

When it rains we get water moving along the edge of the house and over the path to our front door, due to runoff (from the neighbours grazing field) and the eaves down-pipe.

Installed a banana pit, with the down-pipe feeding into it. The bananas and fig palms are doing quite well, but the balisiers have run rampant. Going to have to transplant as many as possible and suppress their growth with other plants. The squash there is doing very well. Less water moving across the entrance to the house now and the turmeric along the edge of the house are doing great.

3rd Banana Pit:

The Washing machine drainage pipe got clogged with mango tree roots, so added another banana pit, with the washing water to feed it. This prevents the wash water going directly into the river (previous owners installation). Banana, taro and arrowroot growing nicely.

4th Banana Circle:

A few months ago during a tropical storm,quite a few banana plants came down. Previously I noticed that a fallen banana plant was growing new stalks from tipped over roots. So I gathered 5 unearthed banana plants and put them in our back wood grove in a circle strait on the ground, no digging. I filled the centre with palm frond, branches and compost, and now there is 4 out of 5 banana plants growing in the circle.

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