Due to popular demand ... okay, three people: a photograph of the Banana-Tree-That-Wouldn't-Bear-Fruit-Bearing-Fruit!
If you've been following along, I mentioned in an earlier post that our barren 8 year old banana tree had finally set fruit. After lakes full of water, a landfill's worth of compost, and enough banana tree fertilizer to feed a small country of banana trees, we finally have ... let's see ... looks like ten bananas!
I'm hoping that we get more, but using the current count, the bananas on this tree will have cost us approximately $200.00 ... or, $20.00 each. These better be some fine bananas!
Now, here's a photo of my banana tree's Momma:
WoWZa! Look at that big o'le bunch of bananas!
This tree was grown in Boynton Beach in about 3 square feet of soil ... well, sand ... and no compost, or fertilizer, had ever been added to this giant's diet.
We go strictly by the book on this banana-farming thang and I get 10 lousy bananas?!?
Well, no matter what surprises the fates have in store for me, I'm guessin' that banana tree farming isn't goin' be one of 'em!
Hope you're having a great weekend and thanks for stopping by to laff and point at my banana tree.
~Hugs,
EDITED TO ADD: That bush in the background with the red and orange flowers? That's hummingbird bait. Yah, I'm gettin' a lot of them, too ...
9 comments:
Thanks for sharing I am sure those will be the best bananas you ever had
Deb, since I'm north of you, I'm wondering if you're not in the tropical zone and you, too, are too far north for bananas?!? Do your neighbors get good bananas?
As a total non sequitur, I can hear Kenneth Brannagh's Henry V asking Katherine, the daughter of the King of France, "Well do any of your neighbors know?"
Have a lovely weekend.
I just wanted to respond to Margaret's post above ^.
Actually, no one in Florida is in the tropical zone, lol, but everyone I know from Jupiter south grows bananas. There's even a small commercial grove right down the street.
All of my neighbors grow HUGE bananas; I see big o'le bunches hanging off hooks on their porches all the time. And I am jealous.
Here's my new theory: I think we treated our tree too well!
But, I AM v-e-r-y grateful for the eight baby banana trees it threw ... and those 10 gangly-lookin' bananas!
PS: I am the Queen of Non-Sequitur ... but if you read my blog regularly you already know that, LOLOLOL!
Thanks, Margaret!!
~Hugs!
OMG....your banana trees are Huge Deb!! Thank you for sharing these awesome pictures and I'm sure the bananas will be worth the wait:)
LOL...how lucky are you to have banana trees? they look awesome....I have a brown thumb and cannot keep anything alive...my brother once commented that I am lucky I have kept my kids alive! They are beautiful!
Expensive bananas for sure. I am sure they will be tasty. I have been eyeing banana plants at the local nurseries, but haven't made the leap yet. I just love the look of their leaves.
Thanks for showing us your banana tree. So I think if it threw baby banana trees it might have been putting all of it's efforts into it's offspring?? Not that someone that lives in the desert would know anything about it but that is an idea. Maybe next year it will be better.
On a side note my mom had a pear tree that produced nothing but three or four fruits each year for about fifteen years and then a couple of years ago the tree was full. You never know!
we used to live on a tropical island & had 3 papaya trees in our garden. we had to eat papayas everyweek, year round! Luckily, we love papayas & these were really good ones. Now we live in Tokyo & I tried but the papaya tree attempts died as it can't grow here.
WOW!! I'm extremely impressed Deb!!! Seriously, in this part of the world bananas come in huge boxes on large shelves and occasionally have tropical 'residents' living among them that make it through border control unnoticed! And reading this has just reminded me I need to go water my tomatoes!!! (but you'd say tom-ay-toes!!! LOL!!)
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