Ok, enough of the intros, let's get down to tin tacks. On the permaculture front, I'm very busy at the moment organising, making preparations and co-ordinating the workers in readiness for the spring plantings. The bananas you see here are our first crop. Some small plants were provided by Grandma Fay last year, and they have raced away to be the big healthy plants you see in these pictures. They're Cavendish of course. Note the bigger female bananas at the top and the smaller males at the bottom. The females are now starting to curl upwards as they grow. The males don't grow big enough to eat. Once the tree has finished producing this crop it will die back, and some of the small suckers (new shoots) at the base of the plant will take over to bring the next crop. We could bag them up, but I'll wait and see how the local birds and possums go. If they leave us with enough to eat, I might not bother with the bags.
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