Bananas

Those of you who follow this blog, know of my anxious wait for bananas to fruit. I had despaired that the plants in my backyard will do anything other than sprout enormous leaves, with years and years of no fruit.

How wrong I was.

As you can see by this pic, taken on new year's day, what looked like a leaf, became a flower and developed into the current gorgeous green bananas. I can't really count them properly, but I'm claiming 8-9 hands!

Everyone in my family now have advice, from cutting the other little banana plants around this main one so it doesn't have to compete for nourishment, to cutting the flower at the base for the same reason.

Oh, and there's been a few warnings about birds eating my bananas to a helpful tip of leaving them on and cutting the bananas (these are sugar bananas apparently) and eating them one by one.

Anyways, it's terribly exciting, even if I have to apparently wait for at least another 6 months.