I think I have complained in almost every single post I have written lately. I know it sounds silly, but I really am sure it's the rain that's getting to me... most of the time when I go on and on about it I really am joking, but to tell the truth, being cooped up with two small boys who have turned on each other in boredom is really bringing me down.
But today... today we had a little bit of sunshine. And what's more, a third banana plant is doing its thing. The bell flower peeled back this morning to reveal these lovely lovely new bananas, which surprisingly are already yellow. I don't remember the others being yellow, but hey, perhaps they too were excited about the sun.
The photo below is of the bananas from the first plant, I was thinking they were almost ready, and from a certain angle they certainly look good to go.
When I climbed up the ladder to take a closer look though, you can see they have a fair bit to go before they fill out those ribs, they are still very flat.
I am really looking forward to tasting them, but do you know what I am looking forward to even more than that?
I cannot wait to chop down the huge big mother plant.
I do adore a bit of reckless destruction.
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I am so jealous. I would love to grow bananas. They actually have some in the nursery I go to. They are supposed to be a cold climate variety. But I don't believe it and they are hellishly expensive just for an experiment. The valley I live in gets quite cold too.
See, look at you growing bananas, the only thing around here thats bananas is ME....
I often have three children that turn on each other with boredom.....now thats fun...not...
xxx
Well Ali, you've never come across as a moaner to me. I've always found your blogs to be very entertaining and I usually have a chuckle. But if I was living through the rain I've seen in Queensland I'd be whining and moaning and complaining all day long. I'd be complaining even more than my kids and we'd be tearing each other apart. Which is what I sometimes find myself doing, especially on school holidays, even when the weather is good. So well done for surviving and I'm jealous of those bananas too.
Agree with veggiegobbler, your blog always makes me smile and laugh.
The weather is a bit crazy at the moment, the boys played cricket in the mist this morning and it rained this afternoon. Summer must of happened while I was sleeping.
Such beautiful close-up of the banana flowers!
So you're saying that chopping down the mother plant "a peels" to you. Ha! Ha!
I had no idea bananas were so beautiful when growing! Very nice indeed!
Cheer up Ali! We all get a little "down" sometimes, and at times like that letting off some steam through your blog is perfectly permissible. As others have said, I don't see you as being a moaner - quite the opposite, usually light-heartedly making the best of what life throws at you.
I seem to be getting off quite lightly anyway - no little kids to look after! My granddaughter Lara is nicknamed "Lara Two Banana" because she used to love eating bits of two bananas simultaneously, one in each hand. She'd be mightily impressed to see those ones of yours.
Hey Ali, the rain is driving me bananas.
.... and I don't have two little boys to amuse.
I'm sure though, the bananas would be loving this weather - looks like a good crop coming on there.
Oh you are all lovely :)
But...
it's raining AGAIN today!!
Hazel I have read about people bringing in their potted bananas to winter inside in colder climates, now I love a good banana plant, but hey, not that much. Think of all the lovely stone fruit and apples you get to grow, while I struggle with my "tropical" varieties.
P3chandan, they are lovely, aren't they? I think they are perhaps the most spectacular emergence that I have seen in the garden, such a pretty fruit, and such a great way to fruit too.
Veggie PAK, what a fabulously terrible line, I like it very much :)
Mark, my eldest boy Luka loves bananas and is very excited about eating ours
And Missy you are right, the bananas are loving it. They have really come on in all this wet weather, and there are suckers everywhere. It just goes to show how much water they need to grow, A LOT!
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