KEROSENE in my garden??? Just discovered a more “eco friendly way to stop the pups growing back. Instead of Kerosene (which some of you are a bit freaked out about), you can try salt I’ve been told in the comments, oil snd metho mixture (2 parts oil to 1 part metho spirits) or simply dig a bowl shape in the cut so that it fills with water in the rain! I’ll try the third suggestion which coincidently comes from my permi teacher Geoff Lawton. I’ll do an update video on that 😊

The massive biomass on that large banana plant is stunning! When I had my first non-supermarket banana during a trip to Jamaica, I almost cried, it was so delicious.

If bananas plants are soo tall to harvest safely then the best thing to do is to chop slightly into the base of the plant and with a rope tied higher up in the plant you then pull the plant down lowering the bananas closer to the ground hwere they can be accessed without a ladder. After harvest of bananas plant is ready to go to the compost anyway, dont risk it up on that ladder with all that weight! BE WISE

You deserve millions of subscribers! We all love the cinematography, and it's so informative. The weedy garden movie was AMAZING!

Also animals (goats and sheep) love the banana leaves, the trunks and the flowers.

When someone says "living the dream," you are the true definition of it 😅👍

There is a kind of banana here in Nicaragua they like called "Manzanitas". You basically have to grow them yourself to eat them, because they have a very thin skin. But they taste different than other bananas. Thats why they call them "little apples". They actually look just like the bananas you showed in the video at the end - short and plump!

What a great personality. Truly inspiring.

That was so much fun!

I have a small organic banana farm high on a rainforest mountain here in the Caribbean. I love your channel, and thank you for this great video.

I’ve been waiting for a new upload and so excited to see this one this morning! Looking forward to the next one from Colorado, USA.

I'm allergic to bananas but I'm here for this!

Your laugh after explaining radioactive bananas (whos gonna sat 10 thousand bananas) cracked me up hahaha

Love ya Weedy. I hope one day, in a couple of years, you can come look at my gardens that are because of you

Great story. I'm recently moved to a subtropical climate in Mexico and there are a lot of banana "trees". Now you've educated me, I think I now understand what needs to be done ! The idea of a family is very self explanatory and also that once the banana has fruited, it should be cut down, that's also something of a revelation !

Growing up in Manado, I watched the farmers harvest bananas as follows: • estimate a spot about a meter above the halfway mark on the trunk. • use a bamboo pole to pike a series of holes in the trunk at the designated spot. • the trunk will slowly begin to fold as the holes weaken the trunk. • this gently lowers the stalk to shoulder or waist height. No damage to surrounding plants and the bananas don’t hit the ground.

Love watching your videos.. I get so excited when a new one pops up:)

Have a lot of establsihed gardening friends very successfully growing banana's here in the interior low desert of Metro Phoenix, Arizona, US. They apply all these concepts. Since they need some land area, are thirsty & big feeders as stated, I have stayed more with other food crops & natives. But I LOVE this video !!

Watched a few of your videos for the first time tonight & I love your channel. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for sharing the video 🌳❤️🌸

Glad to see some more youtube episodes ! I've missed your youtube videos

Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing. I worked on many banana farms in far North Queensland Australia and all that farmers wanted us to chop the tree down high at possible (after picking) so that all the nutrients in the grandmother would feed the next generation better.

I love your energy mate. Thanks for sharing

A super informative session on bananas ! I especially love the bagging and harvest process; will give em a go.

So love the Video ,camera work, magic. Thank you.

Best video I watched on bananas! Awesome!

Absolutley love your videos! Not only are they informative but they make me smile and feel good! I love looking how green, beautiful and tranquil life can be!❤

Your narration is profoundly soothing Weedy‼️ Great content as always🍌 Thank you😎

Gracias, excelente video de principio a fin. Sólo decir una cosa, la banana tiene 3 gajos y se pueden separar con paciencia. Saludos desde Argentina

Great timing of this video- I’m planting my first banana circle this morning with 3 dwarf variety pups. Thanks for the tips, Weedy!

Green cooked bananas are great as well and very nutritious.

This video is way better than a 4 year degree. Thank you so so much for this.

So glad I found your channel. My husband and I are in our 60s and have just bought an olive orchard in Sicily for our next great life adventure. I know the climate is not the same as NSW, but there are so many things that I think we can learn here and apply in Sicily.

Your videos are such a lift up!

Have a little permaculture plot just North of Brisbane with about 1000 mixed banana plants. I use a cordless reciprocating saw to cut a semicircle about a third to half way out of the trunk. Give a gentle push to start it falling, or pull on some dead leaves. Grab the tail of the bunch and guide it away from the falling plant. I use a 450mm blade to cut trunks in a single pass into 300mm segments. Kick apart so they dry and discourage borers. Pigs and goats love the leaves, pigs also love the trunk. Your bunches look great!

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing

Love your videos. Thank you.

I admire the love that you give to the plants ! Greedings from Greece (Europe)

Excellent video mate. More like this!

Beautiful video, beautiful garden, beautiful gardeners, beautiful banana.

Love you Weedy!! Just bought my first banana tree

You made me smile.Thanks

Compost worms love banana leaves and stems, pretty much the plant really. Lovely video.

Satisfying! Thank you for taking the time to film, edit and post this video...

Thanks weedy

Love the channel mate. You've done an amazing job with it so far. Honest feedback, even though I feel confident in my knowledge of gardening, I still enjoy watching "how to" videos because I often learn something new and that was certainly the case here. I'm visiting family in Perth at the end of the year, but it is a long-term goal to move over there permanently and replicate what you've done here. Thank you for your contributions to the gardening community.

After watching your channel I become banana.... greatest thing ever.

Thank you for the down to earth advice, gave me confidence on our new property!! Easy simple instructions for me and new hobbies for my husband !

Thank you Weedy

That trunk is also edible. You can make salads or cook it & it's yummy

Top quality content, fantastic production!

Interesting. Thanks for sharing

Now that's what I call a 'haul' - having your own cluster of bananas (or fingers) and carrying them home (beats those videos where a 'haul' is what you buy from the shops)

Thanks for the lesson, and happy attitude ! although i’m not in the right climate, the peel method and just the better knowledge of the plant is great to have !

Your videos are edited so nicely. Thanks for all the good information on bananas. 🙂

Very big help! Thanks for letting me know you posted this video as well about bananas. I planted some more out today. Separated a pup from one of my plants and then along side it planted 2 more small ones i bought. My dog killed a possum today so that big dude went under the plants along with some sunn hemp cover crop as the mulch.

Love your positivity and nature. Thank you for sharing your garden, knowledge and the process of banana growing! I’d love to work on a farm some day and learn the process first hand! Take care brother, all the very best to you ❤🙏💜

thank you, brother !

have you tried carving out a bowl in the pub so it catches the water and slowly rots it instead of kero?

As always an informative video. I have inground garden compost bins that I put all my kitchen scraps straight into the gardens. And the last few months since they have been in the gardens the worm life has exploded. Banana skins are one thing that I make sure that are put into the compost system, and it has had wonderful benefits to my gardens. I have the most amazing crop of vegetables growing and everything looks so healthy. And it is a very easy system for me as normal composting is just to hard for me with medical issues. The Weedy Garden is looking absolutely amazing so vibrant and healthy. But then it helps when it’s located in gods country, my hometown very close by.

Your a legend mate all the best for 2024

Love your posts, Weedy. Can't grow bananas here (Ireland) but delighted to see how you are getting on with yours.

Every time I watch your videos and hear your voice, it leaves a feeling of home in my heart. Greetings from Munich❤

I want to live in that garden… I love it 😍

Been missing your videos brother, always get ecstatic when I see you upload! All the best and a lot of love from Sweden! :)

thank you 🥰

How i get my bunches down, I use a v shape branch and support the trunk of the banana plant. Then I chop a notch in the base of the trunk just enough to weaken it so it can bend from its own weight, then from the bottom, I inch the support back slowly allowing the bunches to be lowered down as the trunk bends. Most of the time I will have a ladder or tall object placed in a way that it will stop the trunk from bending too much so the bananas wont hit the ground. When its low enough I lop the whole bunch off.

thanks for making these videos. I dream of living like you one day..

I've learnt so much about the Banana I never knew, thank you so much. So disappointing we are unable to grow them in the United Kingdom, our climate has frost during the winter, and my poly tunnel is way too small. Thanks Weedy for another educational video, I love them 🤗🍌

just spent 20 min watching a vid about bananas.😅love your energy

Such a great video. Thank you for teaching me all about banana's. I just moved to Costa Rica and bought a home with 53 banana plants on it. So this was very helpful in my quest to manage, and take proper care of the gift that was given to me here. I also have 11 mango, an avocado, a limon and a couple of noni trees on the property. This is going to be the fun part of my life. Lots of learning to do. Thanks again.

Your videos always gives me a nice respite from a stressful life up here in Sweden. 2 years ago you inspired med to start permaculture. Gardening what I can in this cold climate and really find tranquility in my garden. Really would love to be able to grow bananas and alot of other tropical fruits that you grow. Please keep up this wonderful videos, I love them

Yay, happy and radio active😂🎉. Looking forward to my first own harvest too.

We lived in Queensland in the 70's and I loved the ladyfjngers, so sweet. I think I may have seen them in Canada once, so sad. Also miss the banana passion fruit.

Your a champion, I really loved your video. It helped alot. Plus I learnt something new. 😊

As always, not only a visually stunning video, but packed with fun and facts. 🍌

Always the best videos and watching experience 🌈🍌

I’ve never tried growing bananas (I’m in Victoria) but I know people have done it in our climate! How gorgeous they grow well in a family… bit like us! Beautiful view looking up through the tree tops:) I learnt so much from this, THANKYOU! Have an awesome day ☺️💐🌷Anita. X

Hi I like your video

😎❤TKS MATE 😊

Great video

I love grill plantain 😋

I never thought to climb up to get my bananas. I just cut the entire stalk down carefully and it falls slowly to the ground.

Thanks buddy, we were just contemplating a jig to bag our bananas with and what you have is it. Good growing info too. Aloha!

Good Morning Banana Banana Yeay nice present all about banana organic . Thanks You for sharing.

Loved that. Whats not to like about a 🍌 especially a 🍌 grown on your on plot of land. Thank you.

Good video! Got my fix. Go bananas!

Ps .. hacksaw works well too, for cutting them down after harvest. V cut part way thru, and push. Very easy to cut down 😄.

Another great video, I live in Thailand plenty of banana’s my wife always tells me to cut the banana flower off once the banana’s are formed into fingers. Also they murder t shirts when cutting them down powerful stuff that banana juice

Now i know how i can make my clusters of bananas ripen faster, thanks for the tip Weedy 🤜💥🤛👌👌👌💚🌱💚

I Knew it!!! Least six bananas a day and I am super happy!! Hi Grow them and I think it’s an addiction!!! 💗💗💗 thanks for the awesome video Weedy.

Just discovered you! Instant like & subscribe. Great learning tips as I've got baby banana plants to plant out once i get my front yard ready! Thank you!

Great job!👍👍 Hello from Ukraine

Hermoso el contenido gracias gracias gracias ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Burmese people use banana stem in their national dish - Mohinga, a fish soup. It has a nice crunchy texture.

Go bananaaaaaas. Loved ur video

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Wow, so labour intensive! What an interesting lesson on growing bananas. Thank you 💚

Ive followed your whole journey from the start back in lockdown. Your garden has grown very much like my allotment and also as a surprise we also got bee hives around the same time. I now go into my daughters school doing talks about soil microbes. Maybe 1 day il have to confidence to start a youtube channel too. Keep growing brother

a year ago i put my dwarf bananas in the ground, put ample fertilizer and mulch, but they didnt grow tall, but produced lots of pups