Goin' Bananas Again!


Yesterday we harvested the fourth bunch of bananas since moving into our current house in November 2007.
Marisol washed off the bananas before we took them inside. We enjoy cooking with them and eating them plain.

Bananas do not grow on trees. They are perennial herbs. You can see how the different layers grow on top of each other until the plant is large enough to produce bananas. Each one produces only one bunch of bananas, and another perennial herb (called a shoot, sucker, pup, or ratoon) begins next to it. I chopped down the mature one from which we cut the latest bunch of bananas to make room for the new shoot that is growing. We have three more bunches on the way. That's why you could say the Farnsworth Family is goin' bananas. In case you didn't always know that!!!

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