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Bananas in the Garden

Last post 05-08-2009 9:16 PM by M&MBM. 20 replies.

• 21/07/2009 09:47 PM	In reply to
  Surbiton Flowers Location: Surbiton Joined on: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 14	Reply | Contact that is definitely and upside to global warming! i want bananas in my back garden Surbiton Flowers

• 21/07/2009 09:58 PM	In reply to
  bigsusan55 Location: North-West London Joined on: 14 May 2009 Posts: 144	Reply | Contact I'm with Digger and (someone else, apologies I've forgotten who) on the dying off once fruited and producing new plantlets around the base thing.  Certainly that was what happened to all my Dad's banana plants when they fruited.  He lives in India which is how he had a number in the garden.  Lots of coconuts as well -don't sunbathe under a coconut tree! Big Susan

• 22/07/2009 02:00 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact What a splendid picture! a young happy chap indeed. digger

• 22/07/2009 02:54 PM	In reply to
  bigsusan55 Location: North-West London Joined on: 14 May 2009 Posts: 144	Reply | Contact  You can just seein the photo, on Blaise's left shoulder, the banana flower - that gets eaten cooked as a veg as well.  Can't say that I was impressed, but it was OK.  Big Susan

• 23/07/2009 09:21 PM	In reply to
  Arrem Location: West Midlands. UK Joined on: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 90	Reply | Contact Surbiton Flowers wrote: that is definitely and upside to global warming! i want bananas in my back garden. --------------------------------    And I'd like a garden big enough to grow bananas in. There is no such thing as useless - you can always be a bad example.

• 05/08/2009 09:16 PM

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  M&MBM Location: Essex Joined on: 16 Apr 2008 Posts: 42

  Reply | Contact Alas, though my M basjoo fruited, the fruits are not edible. I was told that M yunnan does bear edible fruit in this country, but mine didn't prove as hardy as the basjoo. For real bananas we need the dwarf cavendishii (off the top of my head). I had one in a large pot in a cool greenhouse but it snuffed it over the winter. I have just come back from Madeira where I saw lots of bananas growing, and the dwarf cavendishii does look the right one to pick as it is really quite short.