This is what we found on the ground this morning. Strewn carelessly across the concrete, ripped from their branches.
See the scratches? I'm not sure what has knocked them off, but there will be no bending like a reed in this situation. There will be a lot of resisting like the mighty oak, swimming against the current and bagging of bananas.
I might actually cry. I love these bananas, I want to care for them, nurture and protect them, and of course, eat them. Me, not wild animals, me.
I put them in my fruit bowl to see if anything will happen, but I am pretty sure they are supposed to be filled out before you pick them. I am also pretty sure they take around 5 months to ripen on the banana plant, so they certainly aren't going to do that on my kitchen bench.
I know I'm going to be lying awake all night listening for disturbances too. I want to put a protective bag around them, but I worked today and it's dark now, and my boundless love for them doesn't include me up a ladder in the pitch dark.
Rocking chair and a rifle sounds so much more preferable to me :p
7 comments:
Oh no! Your pain is palpable! If you want a deputy just holler.
Hmmm, looks like Possum or Bat claws. Possums at a guess, having a look-see. Bats can smell ripening fruit at a 100 paces so don't usually bother fruit not ripe. At this stage, those babies will not ripen :-( they are just not mature enough. In your circumstance I would get a banana bag, ask on BLF if you don't know where to get one, I don't know not having used one. Better yet, ask if anyone else has Possums bothering their Bananas - I am only guessing.
You're brilliant Hazel, we could make a campfire and take turns on the watch... lol, it'd only be for the next five or so months!
Elaine I was thinking possum, I know there is one in the roof above my pantry, cheeky monkey.
I think bags are a great idea, I was just thinking of using one of those big plastic feed ones, I have a 20kg one from chicken feed somewhere. I don't really know how to tie one on though, if there's a particular way of doing it, so I will ask on BLF.
Thanks ladies :)
You must protect that beautiful plant, it's so great to have one like this.
I hate it when the critters get to my plants too.
Uhoh... but that first photo with the red background is really eye-catching, if it is any consolation.
Actually Appalachian Feet, it is! Thank you, I hoped the red would appeal :)
Keewee, I am pretty sure it's a possum too, don't you have lots of problems with them over there? And thanks Ellada, I do so love my banana plants, I will be so cranky if something eats them after waiting for so long for them to flower.
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