Category: Fruits

You should trim dead leaves off of a banana tree to encourage growth and maintain a beautiful appearance. When a banana tree is not getting enough water, leaves can become dry and turn brown, and they cannot be revived. How do you trim banana plant leaves? Cut the leaf off directly where the leaf stem […]

Since the peels decompose so easily, those of us who are a little lazy can just throw the peels on the dirt. However, whole peels could attract rodents, where chopped or blended peels do not. Can mice eat banana peel? When you feed your mice bananas (and any other fruit or vegetable) you should cut […]

Banana peels are a common culprit found in garbage cans. In reality, there’s no reason banana peels should be discarded when their rich nutrients can actually benefit soil and even a number of skin and cosmetic ailments. Why you should never throw away banana peels? “Broccoli stalks, watermelon rinds, banana peels—these are tough for us […]

The banana is a perennial plant that replaces itself. Bananas do not grow from a seed but from a bulb or rhizome, and it takes 9 to 12 months from sowing a banana bulb to harvesting the fruit. The banana flower appears in the sixth or seventh month. Can I grow a banana tree from […]

Although they freeze back to the ground each fall, with proper care they will resprout in the spring. Hardy bananas grow fast enough to match their previous year’s size by early to mid summer, and it usually only takes about two years for a young plant to reach its full size. What do you do […]

So, there is no need to cut your banana trees down to the ground. All you need to do is to trim off the damaged, unattractive foliage. Healthy new leaves will grow out of the top of the trunk. Just removing the damaged foliage ensures that your banana trees stay tall and recover from the […]

Add water to your bowl of mashed-up banana and use your fingers to separate the pulp from the seeds. Pick the seeds out and place them on a paper towel. Discard the mashed-up pulp. Put the seeds in a fine-meshed strainer with a mesh too fine for the seeds to wash through. Can you grow […]

Sow the banana seeds 1/4 inch (6 mm.) deep and backfill with compost. Water the seeds until the soil is moist, not drenched, and maintain damp conditions while growing banana trees from seeds. When germinating banana seeds, even hardy bananashardy bananasIt’s not uncommon for leaves of the Japanese banana plant to reach 6 feet (1.8 […]

A very straight forward way to use banana peels in the garden is to add the whole peel to the soil when planting. The seeds will get a nutrient kick at the start of their lives, which will translate into healthier plants and a better harvest. What does planting bananas in your garden do? calcium, […]

They do make fruit, but it’s not edible. When you’re choosing a banana plant, make sure to pick one that’s bred to make tasty fruit. Bananas should flower in spring to early summer, and banana tree fruit should set in early summer. The fruit grows in clusters, called hands, along a single stalk. Is it […]

Bananas have naturally high-levels of potassium and a small fraction of all potassium is radioactive. Each banana can emit . 01 millirem (0.1 microsieverts) of radiation. This is a very small amount of radiation. Are bananas radioactive Are they harmful? Some potassium is always taken in via the diet, and some is always excreted, meaning […]