If you would like to know how to get a massive harvest of bananas then this is the video to watch! I give my 5 top tips on how to increase banana production for the backyard grower.
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Thank you. Use them for smoothie and eat them also when I harvest. Need to get to do chips – dehydrate them.
Store bought bananas will never taste as good as backyard bananas.
I would dehydrate + pulverize in a blender and then use as sweetener in other things.
We mash up the bananas in small baggies and freeze them to use in banana bread muffins pancakes smoothies and to top off yogurt or mixing some milk for banana milk
Good video,In Kerala India plenty of Bananas grow in the backyard.
When it really ripens as you said we make a nice fried snack called Unniappan cooked in oil,squashed ripe bananas &batter and pieces of diced fried coconut pieces mixed.Check Unniappam recipes on Kerala India
You love every bite on Unniappam fried.So tasty and Mark will get never get sick of his bananas. Try it everyone.So delicious.
You will never know what you are missing
until you try it. It is free delicious recipe for everyone.
Thank you for the information . Good work
We live in Auckland, New Zealand. This morning is 6 degrees C. We just took down our 1st bunch of green look like lady fingers, parentage suspicious. A bit ratty looking, huge winds and storms. Hanging proudly off outside wooden beam. Very excited. Going to walk our whole bush backwards at pruning time, more protection. Thanks for the great info!
Need a banana sucker to grow bananas but 🙁
All up and down the Australian east coast bananas grew a plenty, not nowdays. Sadly.
Glut; using bamboo skewers, insert thru the banana lengthwise leaving a couple of inches and then wrap in aluminum and freeze. Takes seconds. Easy to eat even while semifrozen
As soon as I hear him say Banana I knew I was in the right place lol. I was wondering if we could grow Banana here in Victoria.
1:48 so I took them biggest grin 😉
A good tip is thinning suckers and distinguishing them, thinning out suckers is good for faster fruiting, larger fruit and also not wasting nutrients, 3-4 pseudostems is ok, 1-2 is too few for me, now distinguishing suckers,
water suckers and sword suckers, water suckers have large leaves even when they are small, have tiny corn and grow really slowly like forever to get fruit meanwhile sword suckers when they are small have long – sword like leaves but when they are big the leaves are gigantic they have, the corm is huge in comparison to the water suckers, they grow extremely fast, one sword sucker sprout up at the end of June, at the end of summer it will be taller than you and in just nine months it will be fruiting. Most people believe that cutting the flower will fasten up ripening, that's false because that flower just unfolds and unflonds bracts and the plant is already giving as much nutrients as possible to the bananas and absolutely does not care about leaves and flower and that's it
My bananas have been on the stalk for months but haven't ripened. I live in the southern region of North America (Louisiana) & cooler weather is coming soon. How do I ripen the fruit before it's too late?
I would sprinkle some garlic or dry them with garlic delicious u should try it it one of my favorite
Dude ur such a legend. I love your channel.
Invite you to watch this video
Loved the rescue part of the story. Very tongue in cheek. Ha! Unfortunately I'm on clay in Black Mountain Queensland Australia. Our banana plants are not thriving even though we had the neighbour dig a trench with his tractor 6 years ago. Now we bought a couple of dwarf reds so we are upping the maintenance. We have one flower on the normal finger banana but only about 5 hands. The rest of the florets just kept falling off. So I trimmed it off to save energy for the rest of the bunch. What part of Aussie are you growing in?
Banana granola is one of my favorites!
How to use Bananas:
1. Fruit – I guess Mark has covered this already.
2. Bark / stem – Very nutritious, especially the bottom tender part of the; can be used in soups, a lot of South Indian cuisines. Once the tree had produced the crop, cut it and strip out the other layers and use the white part
3. Leaves – Use as a plate for eating, or a wrap for frying / steaming (very versatile). Next time when you have a party, skip the use-and-throw paper plates and serve on banana leaves; it is a custom in South India.
4. Flowers are also a delicacy
5. Raw (un-ripened) bananas can be used as a vegetable.
Banana is one of the special tree that is an absolute 100% usable.
In PNG they bag their bananas on the tree to make them grow larger. It also protects them obviously, but they say it's mainly to make them grow bigger, and a lot of people do it.
Great video and very helpful thank you!
I'm 150 cm tall I'm not gonna be able to grab bananas
You can eat the cor of the tree and the flower of a bunana
HI LOVE YOUR VIDEOS ALOT, THANK YOU.
I SPEND 20 MINUTES LOOKING FOR YR BANANA BREAD RECIPE? WHERE ISS IT? THANK YOU ANGELA
How I would use bananas: I would lather my body with Salamander Oil bought from my best friend Hildebrand then coat the bananas over me butt naked and run thru a field of bonobo monkeys. Fun!
Coke it like the Ugandan people