Well, here it is. The lone banana I plucked from the hand finally decided to man up and go yellow.
He doesn't look quite so fat with his clothes off, does he?
After much pomp and ceremony we sliced him up and ate him - the whole family sitting down to share and give their verdict. And while I am pretty convinced it was still slightly under ripe, this was one fabulous tasting banana. Sweet and firm, very sweet in fact, and no squish to him, just one lovely banana.
Gosh it was an exciting moment - bananas really do take their time! I still don't think that the rest are ready to come down though, if you look at the photo below the banana is quite black along with the yellow, and I am convinced it's because I picked it too early... but... now that I know they'll ripen when I pick them, there's nothing to stop me from taking one every day until they are all ready to chop down.
23 comments:
Do you seriously have three hundred bananas?
*faints*
I'll bet it was the best Banana-flavour you've ever tasted!
If they are starting to ripen up now then the lot will follow quite quickly. Chopping one fruit off per day (even if the bunch has slightly less than 299!) you will get behind, or, they will beat you to it and start dropping off the bunch all by themselves. When Bananas start to ripen they do it at speed! *One* between 3 of you :-O how can you stop at one? :-)
I should think it is very exciting to eat your home grown banana!
You'll be seeking out banana recipes before long to use them up.
Nice Nudie Narna....how wonderful to fang into your own home grown narna....that beats an eggplant any day Ali....
I hope those boys of yours tuck one in their lunch boxes and tell everyone that their mum grew this banana....x
I just had a thought, they arnt hanging over your fence anywhere are they,,? You know what some people are like at stealing fruit....
Well! It sounds as if it was worth the wait. I am trying to imagine the scene as you all reverently awaited a slice (almost like the communion wafer, perhaps?). Now don't forget to keep the peel and make potassium-rich plant-food with it like our friend Fer from "My Little Garden In Japan" told us...
HOORAY! What a moment : )
Nah Kat, I just made that up! I think there would be more like around 150, spread out over four plants... I just thought 299 to go sounded good!
Elaine the bunch isn't ripening as such, and the one we ate yesterday I had cut down the week before... so I thought one at a time until the bunch shows signs of ripening (or bats!). And yes, it was spectacular!
LBM I cannot wait until they ripen and surplus is upon us! My elder boy adores bananas, so hopefully he can help keep them under control.
Suzanne, cheeky miss. In fact one bunch are hanging over the fence into our neighbour's yard... and I have promised it to them. There is also another near the footpath, but you'd have to be mr tickle to reach them... but you know what people are like, they're likely to pop their kid on their shoulders to get to them!
Mark, the pomp and ceremony was perhaps not quite as formal as I would have liked, but well, we did our best at short notice... I will have to have a look into Fer's plant food, although I am a little terrible with compost and end up giving everything to the chickens. Bad gardener.
And Jodie, YAY! I got a whole bunch of limes the other day too, and all I can think of is lime sorbet, lime sorbet :)
Top banana, Ali!
Another gorgeous pic of your garden produce, Ali. I would love to grow bananas here, but it is simply to cold. You had better get your recipes organised to utilise as many of those gorgeous bananas before they go past their inbuilt use by date! I wonder if you could just mash the uber ripened ones and freeze them for out of season muffins or banana bread?
Thanks Mal!
Daffodil, do bananas have a season? I have no idea actually! I have four plants that are fruiting now and have been doing so for several months, and then I have three or four more that will fruit soon... do you think it's possible to just keep them coming all year round?
I'd call that a pretty hunky 'nana Ali. Sweet and lucious. Well done - heaps better than our scrawny bunches. You must feed yours well? I'm going through the banana recipes at the moment - banana smoothies are the easiest!!
This is just amazing - and what a wonderful treat to be able to grow your own bananas! (I heart bananas!) :-)
I just picked one of my pawpaws that is eventually starting to colour up - I think all this rain stopped them from ripening. That is one tasty looking banana
You have to sing this like Beethoven would have written it .....Ba Na Na Na! Ba Na Na Na!
That first photo had me licking the screen! By the way, The Cook says she posted your pavlova ages ago. Can't trust Australia Post. If it ever arrives, you can slice some banana on it. That is if the cream is still fresh.
150 bananas is still enough to make my jaw drop! I'm dreaming of all the banana cake and smoothies... nommm.
Kat, I have to confess, I like bananas, but not banana products... I'd better learn to pretty quickly hey!
Hazel you good looking young thing, I have posted on your blog exactly what I think of the cook and her postal excuse... although I didn't thank you for the banana idea. Obviously the cook will post me another, so I'll cut down another banana today in readiness.
And your Beethoven is superb - I know you taught Italian, but surely music was in there too??
AA, how do the paw paws go up there? They are my pop up fruit, ie they are everywhere here, the last owner must have planted one edible, and it had to be paw paw! Hee hee, I don't love it... but I am trying. I want to try it green and grated in a salad, have you tried it?
SG, I would like nothing more to share them with all of you... you are right, I am lucky... I'd be even luckier if the bunches would hurry up and ripen!
DD, I don't feed them... nothing at all, I don't even water them, they just get what they are given by nature. It's interesting to see the difference in growth though, I have bananas in seven different spots, and some spots they are struggling, others they are going bananas. Oh that was funny. I didn't think yours looked scrawny at all, although right now I think I am actually remembering your sweet potatoes and how fabulous they were.
I think that is one perfect looking Banana! It's making my mouth water....It's been ages since I have had a Banana! Let us know when you get sick of eating them and we'll all be round there in a flash to finish them off for you... :)
Oh that looks like the perfect banana to me! And I don't really like bananas unless they are perfect! I think banana flowers are the most beautiful things...
Thanks guys, if I win the lottery I am flying everyone here for a big blogging party and you can all take a banana home instead of a party bag :)
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