HOW TO GROW BANANAS

Sit back and learn all you need to know to grow big beautiful bananas with this video from my permaculture inspired food garden.
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Weedy
www.theweedygarden.com
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[@TheWeedyGarden]

KEROSENE in my garden??? Just discovered a more “eco friendly way to stop the pups growing back. Instead of Kerosene (which some of you are a bit freaked out about), you can try salt I’ve been told in the comments, oil snd metho mixture (2 parts oil to 1 part metho spirits) or simply dig a bowl shape in the cut so that it fills with water in the rain! I’ll try the third suggestion which coincidently comes from my permi teacher Geoff Lawton. I’ll do an update video on that 😊

[@danielriddellsfoodforestgarden]

I use Double vinegar. To kill grasses. It would work too I'd say. 💚

[@danielriddellsfoodforestgarden]

The bowl method is what I was taught

[@yogafroog2693]

interesting. here in colombia they say that no water should be able to stay at any parts of the cut trunks, as it would make it "foul" (?) and destroy the whole plant ...

[@shellsea9520]

Yer I would do like a chop hole method , u might need to do a few times but it rots out eventually ❤😊

[@livingrulematrix6932]

Expainnothing I wish kow about grothpocess frmseedgreat video a bunch of unless facts though adios active I didn't know that I use that fact

[@hiz-n-lowz1577]

If bananas plants are soo tall to harvest safely then the best thing to do is to chop slightly into the base of the plant and with a rope tied higher up in the plant you then pull the plant down lowering the bananas closer to the ground hwere they can be accessed without a ladder. After harvest of bananas plant is ready to go to the compost anyway, dont risk it up on that ladder with all that weight! BE WISE

[@daleireland]

This is what I do. Chop the grandmother and catch the cluster on the way down as it slowly falls. Easy

[@hajrazolj1531]

Wiser to chop Greatgrandmother down gently rather than climb ladder....you say she has to come down anyway!

[@margiemurphy3216]

That’s the way I have always harvested mine

[@amandachrome9310]

Yup ...thats how we do it in the Caribbean

[@thefloodtower4866]

Lady fingers are the tastiest bananas but they are very tall. I do the cut and catch method as well. As it slowly falls I maneuver the bunch into the wheelbarrow. Last time however, the bunch was so heavy it came crashing down. The bananas were fine.

[@TanjaHermann]

The massive biomass on that large banana plant is stunning! When I had my first non-supermarket banana during a trip to Jamaica, I almost cried, it was so delicious.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

lol. I know that feeling well 😊

[@rhysdehaan]

You deserve millions of subscribers! We all love the cinematography, and it's so informative. The weedy garden movie was AMAZING!

[@amaturearcadia]

Your laugh after explaining radioactive bananas (whos gonna sat 10 thousand bananas) cracked me up hahaha

[@jofarley7294]

We lived in Queensland in the 70's and I loved the ladyfjngers, so sweet. I think I may have seen them in Canada once, so sad. Also miss the banana passion fruit.

[@gkozak430]

When someone says "living the dream," you are the true definition of it 😅👍

[@TheWeedyGarden]

🦍😁

[@Zone10Permaculture]

Your videos are edited so nicely. Thanks for all the good information on bananas. 🙂

[@glennfiedler6236]

Excellent video mate. More like this!

[@carolmcintyre8485]

That was so much fun!

[@falconole8633]

Watched a few of your videos for the first time tonight & I love your channel. Keep up the great work!

[@mahaniabdullah5056]

Love watching your videos.. I get so excited when a new one pops up:)

[@JackPitmanNica]

There is a kind of banana here in Nicaragua they like called "Manzanitas". You basically have to grow them yourself to eat them, because they have a very thin skin. But they taste different than other bananas. Thats why they call them "little apples". They actually look just like the bananas you showed in the video at the end - short and plump!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Fragile little banana. Interesting

[@suzyskye733]

Stores also call them Apple bananas go figure

[@Flippin_Crazy]

Has anyone had “Ice Cream Bananas?”I have 3+ pups, I don’t think I can kill a pup, I will grow them in another place. Just can’t do it. Florida 🇺🇸

[@my_graphics]

This video is way better than a 4 year degree. Thank you so so much for this.

[@PlantGuild]

I’ve been waiting for a new upload and so excited to see this one this morning! Looking forward to the next one from Colorado, USA.

[@londonpickering8675]

Satisfying! Thank you for taking the time to film, edit and post this video...

[@andyalways8081]

Peel the truck to the core & you can eat it, also the flower bud,,,don't forget you can use the leaves to cook on, extra flavour

[@brianquinn5060]

So love the Video ,camera work, magic. Thank you.

[@kimgeurts3584]

A super informative session on bananas ! I especially love the bagging and harvest process; will give em a go.

[@MrMentxl]

I love your energy mate. Thanks for sharing

[@benjohnson6833]

Love ya Weedy. I hope one day, in a couple of years, you can come look at my gardens that are because of you

[@LouisMaxBlank]

Yay, happy and radio active😂🎉. Looking forward to my first own harvest too.

[@elizabethflynn8455]

Love your posts, Weedy. Can't grow bananas here (Ireland) but delighted to see how you are getting on with yours.

[@JackPitmanNica]

Glad to see some more youtube episodes ! I've missed your youtube videos

[@stjbananas]

I have a small organic banana farm high on a rainforest mountain here in the Caribbean. I love your channel, and thank you for this great video.

[@Elmnt5]

Absolutley love your videos! Not only are they informative but they make me smile and feel good! I love looking how green, beautiful and tranquil life can be!❤

[@paulinacasatiart]

Always the best videos and watching experience 🌈🍌

[@sunnyrivers]

Your narration is profoundly soothing Weedy‼️ Great content as always🍌 Thank you😎

[@cooperj7982]

Top quality content, fantastic production!

[@saulihiltunen4365]

Your videos are such a lift up!

[@jayjohnson3724]

You made me smile.Thanks

[@bkestler1]

As always, not only a visually stunning video, but packed with fun and facts. 🍌

[@bloodweaselthefirst7435]

Been missing your videos brother, always get ecstatic when I see you upload! All the best and a lot of love from Sweden! :)

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Mange tak. Been busy for ages but now can create again. So you’ll be getting more fixes than usual in future 👍🙏🏻

[@DeepakPandey-mf9ue]

​@@TheWeedyGarden such a delight ❤

[@thumperhunts6250]

have you tried carving out a bowl in the pub so it catches the water and slowly rots it instead of kero?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

no but now I will 🙏🏻

[@backtonature433]

Now i know how i can make my clusters of bananas ripen faster, thanks for the tip Weedy 🤜💥🤛👌👌👌💚🌱💚

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Easy 👍

[@markdonnelly7225]

Hi I like your video

[@vindhi]

What a great personality. Truly inspiring.

[@andrewradford3953]

Have a little permaculture plot just North of Brisbane with about 1000 mixed banana plants. I use a cordless reciprocating saw to cut a semicircle about a third to half way out of the trunk. Give a gentle push to start it falling, or pull on some dead leaves. Grab the tail of the bunch and guide it away from the falling plant. I use a 450mm blade to cut trunks in a single pass into 300mm segments. Kick apart so they dry and discourage borers. Pigs and goats love the leaves, pigs also love the trunk. Your bunches look great!

[@ganbaru-inaja9387]

WoW! Is that Gandalf in the garden? That would be a miraculous garden, I think.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

🦍🧙‍♂️

[@JulieTorres-qe2ls]

Love you Weedy!! Just bought my first banana tree

[@user-pi1nn7cf8g]

After watching your channel I become banana.... greatest thing ever.

[@mrq8746]

Beautiful video, beautiful garden, beautiful gardeners, beautiful banana.

[@jakobvinblad]

Your videos always gives me a nice respite from a stressful life up here in Sweden. 2 years ago you inspired med to start permaculture. Gardening what I can in this cold climate and really find tranquility in my garden. Really would love to be able to grow bananas and alot of other tropical fruits that you grow. Please keep up this wonderful videos, I love them

[@Sonia-hw3yx]

Your a champion, I really loved your video. It helped alot. Plus I learnt something new. 😊

[@randomx4289]

Compost worms love banana leaves and stems, pretty much the plant really. Lovely video.

[@karlosj83]

Just discovered you! Instant like & subscribe. Great learning tips as I've got baby banana plants to plant out once i get my front yard ready! Thank you!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

👍🙏🏻

[@supatrabodhilakorn2511]

Thank you for sharing the video 🌳❤️🌸

[@YusufParuk]

Best video I watched on bananas! Awesome!

[@matguthrie8975]

Your a legend mate all the best for 2024

[@xandr1922]

thanks for making these videos. I dream of living like you one day..

[@gorillapermacuture]

Thanks buddy, we were just contemplating a jig to bag our bananas with and what you have is it. Good growing info too. Aloha!

[@alisonbender8611]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing

[@remotecontrolfarmer]

just spent 20 min watching a vid about bananas.😅love your energy

[@dancingdruid7932]

So glad I found your channel. My husband and I are in our 60s and have just bought an olive orchard in Sicily for our next great life adventure. I know the climate is not the same as NSW, but there are so many things that I think we can learn here and apply in Sicily.

[@TravellingKook]

Love your positivity and nature. Thank you for sharing your garden, knowledge and the process of banana growing! I’d love to work on a farm some day and learn the process first hand! Take care brother, all the very best to you ❤🙏💜

[@cythcy]

I want to live in that garden… I love it 😍

[@TheWeedyGarden]

no room sorry 😃

[@xavierpaul852]

That trunk is also edible. You can make salads or cook it & it's yummy

[@rogerkenyon6209]

Great story. I'm recently moved to a subtropical climate in Mexico and there are a lot of banana "trees". Now you've educated me, I think I now understand what needs to be done ! The idea of a family is very self explanatory and also that once the banana has fruited, it should be cut down, that's also something of a revelation !

[@user-fp9go3vx1m]

Growing up in Manado, I watched the farmers harvest bananas as follows: • estimate a spot about a meter above the halfway mark on the trunk. • use a bamboo pole to pike a series of holes in the trunk at the designated spot. • the trunk will slowly begin to fold as the holes weaken the trunk. • this gently lowers the stalk to shoulder or waist height. No damage to surrounding plants and the bananas don’t hit the ground.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yes. Watch the next video. Thanks 😊

[@cruisersgm]

Great timing of this video- I’m planting my first banana circle this morning with 3 dwarf variety pups. Thanks for the tips, Weedy!

[@TheWildlandersOffGrid]

Oh exciting we planted our banana circle 2 months ago, I love it already 🍌 good luck with yours 🍌🤞💚

[@natalieduncan3791]

You are so funny. I love your story telling ❤😊

[@antypanag1]

I admire the love that you give to the plants ! Greedings from Greece (Europe)

[@lilikoi1010]

Green cooked bananas are great as well and very nutritious.

[@sidrakhalid2857]

Go bananaaaaaas. Loved ur video

[@valleturkka155]

Thank you Weedy

[@angelapalmer3542]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing

[@jeff6899]

Have a lot of establsihed gardening friends very successfully growing banana's here in the interior low desert of Metro Phoenix, Arizona, US. They apply all these concepts. Since they need some land area, are thirsty & big feeders as stated, I have stayed more with other food crops & natives. But I LOVE this video !!

[@lassevestby1491]

I wouldnt dare to walk outside without shoes in Australia 😆🤣 You make amazing videos :) Very calming and informative 😊

[@TheEmbrio]

Thanks for the lesson, and happy attitude ! although i’m not in the right climate, the peel method and just the better knowledge of the plant is great to have !

[@gabrielalbores846]

Love the channel mate. You've done an amazing job with it so far. Honest feedback, even though I feel confident in my knowledge of gardening, I still enjoy watching "how to" videos because I often learn something new and that was certainly the case here. I'm visiting family in Perth at the end of the year, but it is a long-term goal to move over there permanently and replicate what you've done here. Thank you for your contributions to the gardening community.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Thank you Gabriel 😊

[@carolexo7269]

Wow, so labour intensive! What an interesting lesson on growing bananas. Thank you 💚

[@TheWeedyGarden]

It may appear so, but it is not really. Only the last part, but I think I have a better technique which I’ll practice and post soon

[@LiLBitsDK]

intensive? it looks pretty chill... nice calming routine when going through the garden

[@allotmental.]

Im off to Lidl to buy some bananas!! Love the videos ❤👍🏻

[@pennysparks1798]

Also animals (goats and sheep) love the banana leaves, the trunks and the flowers.

[@TheMarkvq]

Thanks weedy

[@FeedingMyFloridaSoul]

Very big help! Thanks for letting me know you posted this video as well about bananas. I planted some more out today. Separated a pup from one of my plants and then along side it planted 2 more small ones i bought. My dog killed a possum today so that big dude went under the plants along with some sunn hemp cover crop as the mulch.

[@KristinGasser]

I missed you and your beautiful videos a lot, it felt like half a year since your last video… now, I wish myself - once again - into the lush tropics 😂🙈 loved it! Greetings from a norwegian viking in central european continental climate in Croatia!

[@EliSabeth-wc7xn]

Every time I watch your videos and hear your voice, it leaves a feeling of home in my heart. Greetings from Munich❤

[@TheWeedyGarden]

nice

[@steph6337]

I'm allergic to bananas but I'm here for this!

[@francotosi7078]

Gracias, excelente video de principio a fin. Sólo decir una cosa, la banana tiene 3 gajos y se pueden separar con paciencia. Saludos desde Argentina

[@lpmoron6258]

Good video! Got my fix. Go bananas!

[@Constantinului]

thank you, brother !

[@vinceyong2324]

Welcome back weedy gardener. We missed you while you were gone. xD

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yes. I’ll be here more now I have more time.

[@NewDimension7]

Good Morning Banana Banana Yeay nice present all about banana organic . Thanks You for sharing.

[@wildlifegardener-tracey6206]

Loved that. Whats not to like about a 🍌 especially a 🍌 grown on your on plot of land. Thank you.

[@vitali-opal-and-gem]

Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing. I worked on many banana farms in far North Queensland Australia and all that farmers wanted us to chop the tree down high at possible (after picking) so that all the nutrients in the grandmother would feed the next generation better.

[@BRING619]

I've learnt so much about the Banana I never knew, thank you so much. So disappointing we are unable to grow them in the United Kingdom, our climate has frost during the winter, and my poly tunnel is way too small. Thanks Weedy for another educational video, I love them 🤗🍌

[@markiglesias6794]

Lol...David, what an incredible video! I love it. I totally miss growing bananas in Florida as well as an over abundance of Papayas. Thanks for sharing... Mark Pennsylvania

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I want to grow papaya but they always get beaten by a black dot that turns into 100 black dots and rots before it rippens. Ideas?

[@shellsea9520]

😎❤TKS MATE 😊

[@louishesketh2482]

Weeeeeedy! Nice brother.

[@louishesketh2482]

30 Bay greenhouse venture coming soon, and 40 acres of grazing.

[@benjaminhelm2363]

Ive followed your whole journey from the start back in lockdown. Your garden has grown very much like my allotment and also as a surprise we also got bee hives around the same time. I now go into my daughters school doing talks about soil microbes. Maybe 1 day il have to confidence to start a youtube channel too. Keep growing brother

[@TheWeedyGarden]

nice one!!

[@Flippin_Crazy]

I caught Weedy’s first Video, and have followed his journey. Absolutely love it. Florida 🇺🇸

[@garykellogg2758]

Great video

[@Ian-bq7gp]

My Welsh coal miner relatives covered buried pooh from the khazi in trenches with veg peelings even newspaper and cardboard with kerosene and lime about a foot deep. They grew prize winning pumpkins in the garden and heaps of Tommies there next year. This was over 100 years ago or more my grand dad and I'm 62.

[@HappyDaze4200]

Im in Arizona and im really sad they probably wont grow in this dry heat! 😭🤣 amazing happy video!

[@claudiaschiel4275]

💕💕 Thank you and Greetings from Madeira

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Thank you too!

[@beansprout1308]

I loved this one all about bananas. I learnt alot....🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌Thank you big buddy.❤

[@flowerfolkfarm3553]

I’ve never tried growing bananas (I’m in Victoria) but I know people have done it in our climate! How gorgeous they grow well in a family… bit like us! Beautiful view looking up through the tree tops:) I learnt so much from this, THANKYOU! Have an awesome day ☺️💐🌷Anita. X

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Nice comment. Thanks Anita

[@phakhinphuangmali5338]

you are very talented i see you from thailand

[@lynoreoakley9412]

I Knew it!!! Least six bananas a day and I am super happy!! Hi Grow them and I think it’s an addiction!!! 💗💗💗 thanks for the awesome video Weedy.

[@kolapyellow7631]

I love grill plantain 😋

[@amandaargent6363]

Dave That was brilliant I love banana trees (grass) and am planting them anywhere there is a free spot in my yard at Springwood in the Blue Mountains 🍌

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Watch out! Soon you will have a banana jungle!