Past Events
June Chapter Meeting: Go Bananas, Grow Bananas!
Jon Verdick spoke to us about bananas for one of our rare outdoor chapter meetings. Lucky for us that we were outside, because he had an actual banana tree for show and tell, which he ripped up (for educational purposes) and shared hands-on details that we wouldn’t be able to get just from a slide deck. Among the important things we learned:
The pink part at the left of the image, just above the roots, is the actual plant. All the green parts are banana leaves.
Green leaves are good, whether they’re shredded, broken, anything. Scissors are the best way to trim banana leaves that have gone fully brown.
If the branch that's flowering or fruiting folds or collapses, don’t touch it. The bananas may survive if you leave it alone.
Once a banana fruits, that plant will die. Pups (small banana plants) sprout near the parent to propagate.
