Re: My outdoor 'mini-plantation' here in Kansas
The bunch of bananas in the pic above ripened well, but none of the other plants flowered. It took the others too long to get acclimated, and they were only just getting going when cool temps arrived. Wind was the biggest problem: that's about the most sheltered location I have for outdoor bananas, and even there they got pummeled by daily 10-20 mph winds and the occasional 50-60-80 mph severe thunderstorm.
I dug up most of those bananas last October and moved them into a trench I dug for them in my semi-pit tunnel greenhouse. A couple of them have already fruited this year, and a couple more seem like they're getting close.
This year I've converted the area to figs and sweetcorn. It's cool for me to look back at how different that area looked a year ago. I'll post some pics soon of how that area looked last fall and how it looks now.
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