Banana anyone

[Jay-ell]

I just noticed on their app that Lidl put fruit plants on sale yesterday which includes toms, strawberries and MUSO BANANA.

Oh the reasons to buy a greenhouse now keep stacking up.

[muddled]

A greenhouse the size of the one at Kew?
How big can banana trees grow anyway?

[Jay-ell]

The way it's looking I'll just glaze over the entire plot

How big do they grow - not sure, 8', maybe less if they're in a pot. It probably depends on the variety (which of course they probably don't know) as would fruiting and the edibility of the fruit.

But still, ITS A BANANA

[veggiechicken]

I know several gardens where they grow them outside - but wrap them up in the winter! Looks very strange - like a garden full of Egyptian mummies!

[Nicos]

Here ya go! ....

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=311

[muddled]

But still, ITS A BANANA

Fair point, well made!

I want a BANANA too now!

[Nicos]

Strangely- it's the one fruit I'd choose if I couldn't have access to any other fruit to eat.
Typical that it's something very difficult to grow eh??

[PyreneesPlot]

I have a banana - they grow in the ditches around here, getting totally destroyed in the winter but by the end of the summer are a couple of metres high again. Never seen any fruit.
Mine is more of an ankle biter at the moment!!

[Jay-ell]

So I popped into Ladle and there, lurking in between the tomatoes and the strawberries was a single solitary banana plant - it lurks there no more.

It's a Musa Acuminata "Tropicana" which, according to Musa Super Dwarf Cavendish - Bananas Wiki is a super dwarf Cavendish - so there is a possibility, no matter how small, that one day it'll flower and bear fruit.

Unlikely in Newcastle but if I can't dream what can I do?

[cariann88]

I want I want I want!!!!!!!!

Shame I have no where to put it

[veggiechicken]

I feel a trip to L1dl coming on......................I've just come back from H0m3b@se clutching an Apricot You need them for the fruit salad

[Jay-ell]

I want I want I want!!!!!!!!

Shame I have no where to put it

I don't have anywhere to put it. I'm just waiting till November when I can burn down my sheds to make room for a proper greenhouse.

Till then it'll stay in my see through shack. A long with my pomegranate, chillies, etc

[veggiechicken]

These bananas are elusive. Had to go to two L1dl's before I found one - literally only one. Looks healthy though and has one little pup.
Somehow, 3 Red Gooseberries and a Kiwi Issai (not from L!dl) also came home with me

[Jay-ell]

ANOTHER KIWI - what with the thug you've been fighting with and the kiwi berry you grew from seed you'd think you would have enough by now. How many trees that need to be covered by climbers do you have.

Of course the gooseberries I totally understand - following you along the street, whimpering and looking at you with those sad eyes.

Hang on - that's puppies not gooseberries. I need to recheck my pots.

[Alison]

I grew a banana from seed last year, it produced a great and stunning plant that sat on the patio last year. Took it into the greenhouse for protection over winter (it was supposed to be root hardy) and it's not come back this year . Planted the rest of the packet this year and nothing has come so one plant, for one year from 5 seeds on a packet.