Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

Yes. Heirloom tomatoes, chard, chioggia beets, haricot verts, herbs, heirloom carrots, turnips…..

GardenersCardiff answers:

I have some banana trees. I do not live in a tropical climate, I live near the Mississippi River in the upper midwest.
You grow them from trees. The trees shoot up new trees when they are about two years old. You can separate the new baby trees from the roots of the bigger trees to grow separately. They do not have seeds.

We take our banana trees outside in April where we plant them in sand and full sun. At about age five, they will drop a long rope with a beautifully sweet-smelling flower on the end of it. Small four inch bananas then form on the top of the plant that grow upward not down like you see them in the stores. After having bananas the big tree dies. By that time it is about ten feet tall or more.

Each fall in mid October, we dig up each tree, cut off all the leaves and wrap the roots in a garbage bag then haul them to the basement. They winter there where we dribble water on each rootball about three times during the winter. In spring we take them back out where they sprout new leaves and grow.

I accidentally killed some of them last year by fertilizing them. So just for reference, do not fertilize. Just let them grow. They are sturdy, hardy plants. And when you get rewarded with a flowering tree you feel wonderful. Their scent is beautiful.

GardenersCardiff answers:

In my country Hungary most people who have a garden grow some vegetables and have fruit trees.We have them too.It’s a very useful hobby but for people who have low income it’s a way of survival.
We don’t use chemicals but my greatgrandma used a lot and it sometimes made everybody run to the toilet like crazy.lol
Our vegetables and fruit are good tasting but we’ve gotta watch what to plant and when we trim the trees.One apricot tree has died cause I trimmed it when the weather was getting warm and I didn’t put tree-cream on the wounds only a day later and it died of Monilia, so gotta be careful with the timing and do the work properly when doing biogarden.