We’re Going Bananas!
It has been really dry in Rincon for the past month. Up until the past two or three days (windy/drizzle), we haven’t had a drop of rain in over 3 weeks. These pictures are all at least two weeks old, so there is still some ‘green’ in the background, but as of yesterday, we’re talking yellow grass days of winter. Most of our plants are going into drought mode, loosing leaves and turning yellow but we have a few plants that just love this time of year.
Our banana trees have been producing a lot of banana’s for us this year. Once the first few bananas turn yellow, we chop off the entire bunch and hang it on the front porch for easy picking. Sydney eats at least one banana a day and it feels good to know that WE grew her breakfast (part of it).
Our papaya tree’s are also enjoying the dry weather. We had about 15 papayas growing out of each tree. I sure wish everything we planted grew as fast as the papayas. It took less than a year for these little non-grafted papayas to grow up and give us fruit. Amazing.
Tags: citrus, fruit, grafted, papaya, Sydney, trees
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February 22nd, 2010 at 4:29 pm
I love the video! Too cute…bring me some Papayas! I can’t believe your Papayas hang so low, the few trees we have, the papayas are 7 – 8 feet high…so getting them has been a joke!
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:44 am
I love hearing about your life in Rincon. My son just moved there and its nice seeing where he lives.Must be nice to have your fruit just hanging there instead of having to go to the store. We are expecting more snow in Virginia this week,YUK!!!!
February 25th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
funny thing. summer just told me she used these pictures in a post a few weeks back. Duh, don’t I even read my own blog?