Urban Banana Farms

[robby]

This must be the Banana Belt of San Jose. Everybody else is freezing their ass off and I'm harvesting the January banana crop. I don't think bananas are supposed to grow this far north, but they do.
http://www.geocities.com/robvelour/pictures.htm
I'll admit they are little, but they probably haven't been cultivated in years.

I cut down two bunches, and pruned the red banana flower from the end of four more bunches. I've been told this will make the developing fruit behind the flower grow bigger. I'm also planning on fertilizing the banana grove.

The banana stalks I've cut are indoors, in plastic bags, and I'm hoping they ripen

Comments

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[robby.livejournal.com]

See, I didn't know not to eat the red parts. I'll ask the Vietnamese guys that told me to trim off the flowers to help the fruit grow larger. They know how to eat banana flowers, I'll bet.

[twgan.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

I should learn how to cook sometime.

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[robby.livejournal.com]

Those guys want ALL the flowers, and say you soak a part in cold water for 10 minutes and eat it with salt. They say it doesn't taste like banana at all.

[twgan.livejournal.com]

Uh. Eat it with salt. Hm. Curious. Tell me what it's like when you finally get to try it.