Compost - Musa Baajoo Banna Plant

Instructions for planting says to use Humus soil.
Can I use the Farm Manure seen in bags at garden centres and what other compost can I mix with the manure.
Can I use anything else other above for growing in a container

thanks

 

Hi

I grow a musa ... farm manure in bags is really good as they are hungry and thirsty plants ...

you will need some weight in the pot or it will blow over. John inns no3 will help with that

• Bag of john ins no3 soil compost use all the bag and mix in a multi compost and your manure.

Hope that helps

 

For container growing I use potting compost, a mix of JI no3 and multipurpose.
I've never used that processed manure ,in bags, for pots but I guess it's ok as you only want leaves in this instance.

 

Thanks,

Is that true farm manure or the farm manure bags from garden centres.

 

I use the manure in the base of pots about a 3 inches holds the water with most of the plants I grow plus I dont have to crock them

 

I never use crocks, just takes up compost space IMO, I remember once planting up some bedding plants in a big pot and I didn't have enough compost so I put a layer of garden soil ,Dirt, in the bottom half and filled up with compost.
At the end of the season when I took the plants out I found that the roots had stayed in the compost and not moved into the soil below
Just a one off I suppose but since then I've always been wary of putting layers of different medium in pots instead of giving it all a good mix first.

 

One thing to be aware of if the pot is going to be standing on an attractive patio.....manure stains if the water runs off and overflows the saucer. Really stains! So either make sure you've got a big saucer under the pot, or water very carefully

 

A couple of handfuls is ok if your hands are like shovels....they like food with added food.

Watering carefully isn't an option with musa, drainage is.
When they've had enough to drink, they will 'sweat' from the leaf tips...just don't leaf them standing in a saucer full of water

 

I use homemade compost, miracle grow, pelleted chicken manure, epsom salts, iron sulphate, tomorite and anything else I can get my hands on(that's cheap!)
The porosity of my chalk soil makes for an interesting battle between keeping the soil damp enough and not washing away any feed I put down and the smell of ammonia from chicken poo can rival the dracunculus!

 

No vested interest, but you can't go wrong with Miracle-Gro . Wonderful stuff!

 

mines the same will the leaf colour the weather has been so mixed .. lets see what this heat wave does

 

I split my basjoo up last year, it hadn't been doing much for a few years.
It's got less stems now but I think it looks better.
The dry ground is holding it back now and I'm not really prepared to waste much water on it.
I just think they use up all the nutrients and are better moved after a number of years unless you can give them lots of manure.