Our first crop!!
It’s taken almost 4 years but we finally have had our first crop of Bananas!!
We have attempted to grow bananas once before but it failed. Which is pretty impressive considering they grow wild here!
When we moved into this house there were already banana plants growing here so I don’t think we can take too much credit for these. But hey, we didn’t kill them so I think we will take that for now!
About three months ago we noticed that one of our plants had flowered and there were teeny tiny little bananas growing.
After a quick search online we discovered we would be waiting for around 3 months until they would be ready to eat. It seemed like a really long time. And if felt like there was a lot of time for something to go wrong!
This Friday, Mark came home from school and very excitedly proclaimed that there was a yellow banana so it was time to chop them down!
We had learned that you just have to wait for one banana to be yellow to chop them down, not all of them!
So we got the machete and the camera and we headed out to the garden-. Yep, it’s totally normal to have a machete here!
The bananas here are about half the size of ones you get in the UK but with twice the flavour!! They are so so delicious and are a perfect size for baby led weaning! The boys absolutely love them!
Arthur has been giving a running commentary on the bananas pretty much every day since we first spotted them. He has loved to tell us about the “green bananas”. So it was cool to show him that they had now started turning yellow!
After they had been chopped down, we showered off the bananas to make sure there weren’t any beasties living on them. Luckily there weren’t! Arthur had the honour of having the first banana from our first crop. We have all since had one and they are so good!
Bananas are super cheap to buy here so it’s not like having them will be saving us lots of money. But, it’s definitely satisfying to know that these have grown in our garden! It’s been fun to show Arthur how they grow (and for us to learn about it too)
There is already another lot of bananas growing in the garden. We think they will be ready just in time for us coming back after the summer!!
We eat sooo many bananas in our house, I would love to have a banana tree in our garden x
It was really exciting watching it growing! We really do have a whole lot now, I see lots of banana bread and banana smoothies in our life for the next couple weeks haha!
That is amazing! I love the idea of growing your own fruit. It’s a bonus that you can fill your freezer with bananas for banana bread whenever you want it!
This is amazing, I love the idea of having a freezer full of bananas ready for banana bread at any time! Such a cool fruit to be able to grow yourself!
You will never want to eat a supermarket banana again after this! It’s got me thinking about banana pancakes – yummy!
thats true!! We’ve had a whole lot of banana pancakes and banana milkshakes, i’ll actually be glad of a little banana break now haha! x
Wow how lucky are you, even if it has taken a few attempts. Bet you are googling and pinning every banana recipe known to man! Although the pancakes and milkshakes sound good enough to me #myexpatfamily
We eat loads of bananas too, how amazing to have your own banana tree! Is there a banana season or do they grow all year round? The bananas we buy come from the south of Mexico and they seem to be around all year. Frozen bananas are yummy too, instead of an ice lolly, and even better dipped in chocolate! #MyExpatFamily
What a fun adventure! Z would be so happy if we had a banana tree. Thanks for sharing.