You can eat those bananas in many ways - eating as raw, baking, cooking, steaming, green, drying, powdering, candies... and you can make pickles/salads from that banana flowers and baby trees... and and you can use leaves to wrap food or making boiled/steamed cakes... annnnndddd you can use dried leaves to clean jackfruit milky when opening a ripen jackfruit (no need cooking oil). It's hard to find a baby banana tree in Orlando, but anyway, my dad's backyard runs out of space. Thank you for sharing with us.
What a paradise, we recently relocated to Alaska from Zone 8. I have always been jealous of what you can grow there, we stopped buying produce a few years back that is not grown by us or locally in season so I'm drooling seeing what your growing!
both of my parents are agriculturist, i grow up loving fruit trees and vegetable plants. My father use to tell me that plants can hear you when you speak to them, it help them grow faster. this explains why sometimes i hear him talking to them. they taught me about the science of farming and how important to observe the movement of the sun during the days and how to do crop rotations and what not.
You can't imagine how wonderful and relaxing it feels watching you harvesting these amazing fruits that we all love! Almost like therapy. Love from Greece!
So exciting, I actually have three racks growing on three trees in a grouping, my first banana tree planted last year...it's first rack was blown over by H. Irma and the frost killed it back twice...but it's a fighter and I can't wait to munch on it's bounty...thanks for the info, I have planted at least 20 bananas, mostly for privacy, but the yummy bonus rules!
VintageTrish these are definitely my favorite variety, so good! It’s been a busy year for us, not much time for my own homestead. It amazes me how productive it is around here without the love and attention.
I could find such a video only because I had inquired. Never knew that a North East indian (Assamese )backyard garden in Florida . It will be completed - only some betel nut palm saplings , betel leaf creepers attached to them, and a few coconut palm saplings . However, without these also ,this is already a dream farm - ideal for an Assamese village family .
I am also in Florida( central)... I met you through Justin Rhodes channel. My father in law gave me 3 banana pups and they are growing here in my backyard.. I have always LOVED his bananas so he gave me some of my own to grow. We don’t know what type they are though. When I saw you eat one of yours I thought ours might be the same. The skin is paper thin and they are small, not like the long ones in the grocery store. And OMG you are sooo right!!! There is no comparison when you taste these you will never want another store bought banana!!!!
Thats an awesome food forest! I almost cried when you said you will freeze some of the bananas, wish we would have these here :/ I never tried, but will soon order some nam wahs. I really need to move to a more tropcal climated country! :D
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL yes you are totally right! I am really looking forward moving to a place with a more tropical climate. Its amazing having the possibility to grow your own food and support nature in the same way 🙂🌿
Hey Pete. Too bad we didn’t meet up while we were both down in Costa Rica. Have you thought about setting up some hot compost piles in the greenhouse for those few cold nights you get in the winter? It works perfectly for keeping the temps above freezing. After the last frost you can spread all the goodness back into the soil, for an abundant spring and summer harvest.
I would be happy to live there. It reminds me of Thailand. Love bananas. We use so many parts from the roots to the leaves. All useful. I love making the effective microorganisms water from banana roots .. good for soil and plants. I love organic ways
Greeting from Thailand. Wonderful. This is self-sufficient economy. You can cut down your food expense a lot per month. Think about how much money you spend to buy food on a monthly basis. You can grow it and sell your agriculture product. You can make compose and use it as a quality fertilizer. You have your own place, no need to rent, no need to buy expensive stuff. Waking up in the morning to see a little bit of dew on your grass and trees, very fresh and clean air in your farm. You can't find this that much in a city. This is my kind of living. A lot of Thai people down here have lived in a similar fashion and be happy.
Amazing! What I would give to have my property have a food forest. Something for us to do year by year! However, if I ever win the lottery, I will be calling you to put my food forest in! Lol! Journey On! Love from North Carolina!
Great to see you Pete! Love your farm, my dog eats fruit with me as well. I understand we are 97 % primate and banana's are a perfect food for people also eating fruit is a great way to become more alkaline and heal from illness. Thank you!!
Those are beautiful they look similar to what he grow where I'm from. But our is different tasting. Ours are called (apple bananas)and they have the tart sweet taste of apples.
Check and see if geothermal heating is possible where you live. Theres an old man out in Nebraska growing sub tropical and even tropical plants over winter in greenhouses.
I salute you Pete, really a great feeling harvesting and eating what we have laboured for. I have enjoyed watching your video for over a year now. There is also Joseph Sheely an american farming in Bohol, Philippines whose work might help spark your channel in this part of the world.
Hi Pete, Can you show me/us how to chop a banana palm after fruiting? I'm a novice gardener... venturing into the permaculture space... I have a banana tree that's fruiting and has 5-6 pups around it... and it seems to be dead... It fruited very late in our summer... then winter set in and the bananas on the tree were green... I am wondering now that spring has sprung, if the bananas will continue to ripe...
I don't know if they bananas will continue to ripen since I am not very familiar with growing bananas in cold weather. However, to cut the banana palm after its fruiting you just want to cut it as close to the base as possible. I think some people can use a machete to do this, but I have found it easier just to use a hand saw that is meant for cutting small wooden stems because the banana plant is very thick. I would recommend doing this as soon as possible after harvesting the banana rack because the plant will start to decompose making it very watery and squishy while you are cutting it.
Nice harvest man! My wife and I were just wondering about you, as I harvested a rack of bananas from our backyard here in Indialantic FL yesterday:) The timing of your video couldn't have been better, and thanks for the update. Keep growin'!
Hey Pete! Is there any chance you’ll open back up the online store for seeds and cuttings? I’m having trouble getting the Mexican sunflower (tithonia diversifolia) seeds or cuttings here in Southern California.
SWEEEET !! Pete it has been a long summer. I ready for some slow down 🤨 Question for you. Do you grow any fruiting trees in large nursery pots ? After last winter losing a Barbados cherries and peach tree. I was thinking about movability . Possibly build a small hoop house to put them in.
Ron Hart hey bro just catching this comment. The only ones I keep in parts long-term are jaboticabas and other specimens. I’m building a few more green houses this year, I don’t think we’ll get this lucky every winter.
Pete, just purchased 5 acres and a home in Jacksonville, zone 9a. My plan is to use the canopy of my huge oak trees to protect the more tropical, less cold hardy, plants/trees. In your opinion can I be successful using a method similar to yours in growing under the canopy of the trees this far north? I’ve just ordered namwah and and ice cream banana trees from Sow Exotic.
Hey Jennie! The canopy will definitely help create a microclimate in the winter time. During my North Florida tour last year I saw many tropicals I never expected to see that far north. Things like bananas will always recover. After this last winter I'm a little more cautious of what I'll plant going forward.
Pl help I have small plant of apple which grow quite big what ferlizers is required for the apple to grow that plant . What what how to grow Pl help is needed. Pl share
