Start Here
Consultations
Survival Plant Profiles
Books & Products
Contact
Go Deeper

Start Here
Consultations
Survival Plant Profiles
Books & Products
Contact
Go Deeper

Home of Author David The Good - This Gardening Site is NOT written by AI

Home Fruit treesBananas A Momentous Occasion

A Momentous Occasion

by David The Good January 22, 2019

written by David The Good January 22, 2019

This has both my best intro and my stupidest rap yet:

Related posts:

Maintaining a Banana Grove

Macropropagation of Banana - Turning One Plant into Many

My Greywater Oasis: Two Years Later

Growing Bananas as a Staple Crop

Growing vegetables in banana stems

0 comment

Pinterest Whatsapp Email

David The Good

previous post

How to Tell a Seedling Citrus from a Grafted Citrus

next post

Identifying Good Coppicing Trees

Related Articles

A few pictures from the new homestead

May 17, 2016

Updates from The Great South Florida Food Forest...

November 14, 2016

My Greywater Oasis: Two Years Later

May 27, 2015

An Orlando Food Forest

April 21, 2016

Susy Demonstrates The Easy Way to Harvest Bananas

June 19, 2021

A Banana Circle Around a Composting Toilet?

February 17, 2022

Self-delivering bananas

December 21, 2015

Orinoco Bananas Rapidly Ripening

December 28, 2015

Thai Black Banana Fruit!

August 27, 2015

Bananas Everywhere!

February 11, 2020

Recent Posts

Genetic Treasure Hunting: Weird Pear Seedling Edition
March 13, 2026
Native Plums are Fantastic
March 12, 2026
The Kieffer Pear Gets No Respect
March 6, 2026
Problems Propagating Chestnut
February 27, 2026
Tropical Sage and Other Delights
February 25, 2026

Buy Great Broadforks

Buy Daisy’s Seeds

Great Organic Seeds

Sign up! It’s awesome!

Learn More: Subscribe to David's Newsletter

2026 Reading List

Currently Reading

The Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims translation) by God
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon (trans. Rex Warner)

Finished Reading

History of Rome by Michael Grant
Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings
The Life of Greece by Will Durant

2025 Reading List

Currently Reading

The Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims translation) by God
History of Rome by Michael Grant
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus

Finished Reading

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
Padre Pio: Man of Hope by Renzo Allegri
Blood and Idiocy by Tom Sensible
Helena by Evelyn Waugh
The Catholic Guide to Miracles by Adam Blai
St. John Bosco by Catherine Beebe
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stephenson
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South by Dianne Flynt
Apples of North America: A Celebration of Exceptional Varieties by Tom Burford
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
Pomegranate by Gregory M. Levin
Apple Growing by M.C. Burritt
Uncultivated by Andy Brennan
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Great Catholics ed. Claude Williamson
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross: Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South by Dr. Andrew Henry Stern
St. Philip of the Joyous Heart by Fr. Francis X. Connolly
Robespierre by Hilaire Belloc
Marie Antoinette by Hilaire Belloc
The French Revolution, 1789-1799 by Peter McPhee
Thomas Cranmer by Hilaire Belloc
The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc
The Truth About the Titanic by Archibald Gracie
The Sinking of the Titanic by Logan Marshall
The Children of Fatima by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
1001 Ways To Cut Your Expenses by Jonathan D. Pond
Alfred the Great by Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Story of a Soul by St. Thérèse of Lisieux
The Millionaire Mind by Thomas Stanley
If You Want Something Done Right, You Don't Have to Do It Yourself by Donna Gennett
The Millionaire Dropout by Vince Stanzione
Don't Be a Chump by Nick Schaffzin
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
The Retail Leader's Field Guide by Kit Campoy
My Brother Pier Giorgio: His Last Days by Luciana Frassati
Characters of the Reformation by Hilaire Belloc
Napoleon by Hilaire Belloc
Danton by Hilaire Belloc
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Rienzi: Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last of the Barons (vol. 1) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last of the Barons (vol. 2) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Peregrine's Progress by Jeffrey Farnol

Started then Ditched

How to Argue and Win Every Time by Gerry Spence
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant Pitre
The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg

Why Become Catholic?

Archives

Archives

Subscribe to my posts

Tags

bananas bees cassava chickens compost corn crash gardening dioscorea alata econopocalypse Florida fruit trees florida gardening food forest foraging front yard garden gardening grafting great south florida food forest project habitat hotstuff hugelkultur illegal garden Marion Gardener microclimates moringa mother earth news mulberries mulberry mushrooms orlando papaya peaches permaculture potatoes seminole pumpkin south florida sugarcane survival crop survival plant sweet potatoes the prepper project timely tips trees from seed urban gardening wasps winged yam

Other Garden Sites Worth Reading

Southern Forager

Hoe and Shovel

EthnoHerbalist

Abundant Permaculture

Permaculture Apprentice

The Deliberate Agrarian

Permies

The Prepper Project

Green Basket

Mother Earth News

Skillcult

Laboratoireabbou

The Grow Network

@2017 - PenciDesign. All Right Reserved. Designed and Developed by Map-Service