Bana Grass, Pennisetum purpureum x americanum, Unrooted Cuttings 3x

🌿 Why grow Bana Grass?

Bana Grass is a powerful permaculture plant that grows incredibly fast and provides multiple benefits. It is mainly used as a soil builder, adding organic matter and improving poor soils. It can be cut several times per year to generate mulch, fodder, wind protection, or even a quick privacy hedge within just a few months.

🌱 Growing Conditions

Bana Grass thrives in full sun or part-shade. It prefers fertile, well-drained soil but is very adaptable – we grow it successfully even in nutrient-poor, poorly drained clay, but it won’t grow in the completely waterlogged patches. Since it’s a fodder plant, deer and kangaroos will eat it. Bana grass is drought-hardy once established and able to survive light frosts.

🐄 Fodder & Uses

While not edible for humans, Bana Grass is often used as animal fodder. Livestock such as cattle, goats, and will graze on it, though palatability may vary from clump to clump.

✂️ Propagation

The plant does not set seed. It grows into a clump and is multiplied by cuttings. The price is for 3 unrooted cuttings with 3 nodes each. You can root them in a pot or plant them directly into the ground with sufficient watering (but not in water-logged soil). Once established, you can keep producing more cuttings from your own plants!

Bana grass is a great permaculture plant that can be cut several times per year. It grows incredibly fast and provides biomass, fodder, wind protection and a privacy “hedge” in only a couple of months.

The price is for 3 UNROOTED cuttings, 3 nodes each. You can either root them in a pot or, if you water, also directly in the ground. Once the plant grows big, make more cuttings! Bana grass does not set seeds and grows into a clump. Full-sun or part-shade. Drought-hardy once established, and can survive light frosts. It prefers well-drained, fertile soil, but we grow it very successfully in our poorly-drained, nutrient-poor clay garden -it’s for improving the soil after all! The kangaroos (or deer) leave some clumps alone but nibble on other clumps.