can i grow bananas?

[greendean]

cough cough wheez sniff achoo

interesting that 'joke' thread has started a banana revolution

vive le banana (or is it la you frenchie types)

[Nicos]

Tis une banane...so- vive la banane...quite a close guess there greendean- just one letter wrong in its gender!!!!

[bobleponge]

Which is something else I fail to grasp with the allocation of gender in French. Clearly a banana should be masculine, as should beer, and yet, staggeringly, they are both feminine.
I just dont get 'em.

[sarraceniac]

cough cough wheez sniff achoo

interesting that 'joke' thread has started a banana revolution

vive le banana (or is it la you frenchie types)

See a Dr. immediately Greendean. You clearly have Musa sikkimensis.

Do you know somebody is actually selling and I quote 'Rhino poo in a box to grow your own bananas' on eBay? I have a staffie. Anybody interested in growing staphy-lococcus aureus?

[Nicos]

Which is something else I fail to grasp with the allocation of gender in French. Clearly a banana should be masculine, as should beer, and yet, staggeringly, they are both feminine.
I just dont get 'em.

Strangely-most fruit are feminine and the fruit trees are masculine

.....and strangely a bloke's thingy is feminine too isn't it??

[Flummery]

oooo la-la!

[bobleponge]

I know, there is no logic.
Still, keeps my neighbours amused when I use the slang word for *thinks how to put this politely* the little Bob maker, and insist it must be masculine. Even though, somehow, they have it as feminine!!!

[greendean]

could it be ooo le le?

better brush up on my french for the hols then

i have see lion wee cat repellant somewhere

if only cat poo was a good fertilizer, my plants would be enormous.

maybe grow a kittycrappius felinomus

[Printemps]

I too have the banana Musa Basjoo - I grew all three from seed! Only about 4 years old so still needs over-wintering in the conservatory.

Ginger is a good plant for a conservatory, easy-peasy too!

[Eyren]

I'm definitely spending too much time on the Vine - last night I dreamt about bananas growing outdoors in the gardens of a stately home

[di]

I'm definitely spending too much time on the Vine - last night I dreamt about bananas growing outdoors in the gardens of a stately home

The question has to be...did they manage any decent fruits???