RIP BANANA

Woke up this morning to sad news, my pride and joy banana plant couldn't support the huge banana hands it was carrying and broke.

We had to cut it down. Seems silly but it made me sad. We've had the plant for over a year I think and it started flowering in December last year, much to my joy.

So it was sad to wake up and find the trunk broken and most of the plant resting on our clothes line. It must have slowly broken off last night, so slowly and painfully and we didn't hear it. You can't help but think if we did anything wrong, or now we could have save it earlier.

I think we've got to learn to keep the plants (we have two or three new stalks) shorter so it is less pressure on the trunk. And I've got to learn not to be greedy, the bananas were meant to be sugar bananas but they grew to be really big with at least 8-10 hands that I could count - probably spurned on by me tipping food scraps and anything that might have some nutritional value around the plant.

Also learned not to be selfish, I reckon I wouldn't have been upset at all if the bananas rippened - I would have probably cut off the plant after that and be perfectly happy. Was my sadness not for the plant, but because I couldn't get to taste our first home grown bananas. Or was it just general failure when it comes to the garden?

RIP my first banana plant.