Thanks for the additions! (100 bananas a week?!?! Wow!) I live in the freezer box of the U.S., so there isn't much tropical fruit growing here! I'd love a more favorable growing season. Maybe I need a greenhouse!?
intouchoz
February 11, 2008
I forgot to add to my comment that if possible, only eat organic bananas. The producers use a lot of sprays and fertilizers and the larger food chains gas the bananas (yuk) to ripen them for display.
intouchoz
February 11, 2008
Great ideas maven. I will add several more.
1. Drop the odd banana peel in to your birdnest plant. The rotting banana peel will stimulate growth and nourish the plant as their roots are only used to bond the plant to a tree or rock.
2. Freeze the bananas for a great natural and nutritional iceblock. We keep at least 20 frozen (peeled) bananas in the freezer at all times.
3. Using a champion juicer, mix bananas, berry fruits, mangos to make a natural sugarless icecream. Better than the commercial junk. Have you ever wondered why Maccas don't call their soft serves icecream...that's another story. Try this link for a recipe ecobites.com
We live in the Australian Tropics. Our weather is normally hot (winter) or very hot and humid (summer). We grow about 7 varieties of bananas along with about 40 other tropical fruit trees, including grumachama, mandrono, jaboticaba, abu, grapes, lemon aspin, carambola, white sapote, seedless black sapote, rowlena, lemonade, pink grapefruit, barbados cherry, white star apple, wax jambu, etc. We normally (as a family) consume 100 bananas a week. We also have a large Nara fruit dryer and can dry approximately 150 very large bananas at at time. Everything grows well here including the insects.
DIY Maven
intouchoz
intouchoz
Great ideas maven. I will add several more.
1. Drop the odd banana peel in to your birdnest plant. The rotting banana peel will stimulate growth and nourish the plant as their roots are only used to bond the plant to a tree or rock.
2. Freeze the bananas for a great natural and nutritional iceblock. We keep at least 20 frozen (peeled) bananas in the freezer at all times.
3. Using a champion juicer, mix bananas, berry fruits, mangos to make a natural sugarless icecream. Better than the commercial junk. Have you ever wondered why Maccas don't call their soft serves icecream...that's another story. Try this link for a recipe ecobites.com
We live in the Australian Tropics. Our weather is normally hot (winter) or very hot and humid (summer). We grow about 7 varieties of bananas along with about 40 other tropical fruit trees, including grumachama, mandrono, jaboticaba, abu, grapes, lemon aspin, carambola, white sapote, seedless black sapote, rowlena, lemonade, pink grapefruit, barbados cherry, white star apple, wax jambu, etc. We normally (as a family) consume 100 bananas a week. We also have a large Nara fruit dryer and can dry approximately 150 very large bananas at at time. Everything grows well here including the insects.
Add a Comment!