We are all excited to discover that one of our banana plants has a big purple flower and lots of small green bananas developing on it. Each banana is called a ‘finger’ and they grow in a group called a ‘hand’.
As you can imagine we are ‘going bananas’ with the thought of eating our own home grown bananas, but we won’t be rushing out immediately to buy the ice cream to make banana splits, it may take another couple of months for the bananas to fully ripen!
Our banana plants, along with some papaya trees, were kindly donated to the school by a local company, Environmental Arts, who helped set up our garden environment. We’ll keep taking a close look and watching out to see if we have more fruit growing in the near future.
Do feel welcome to come in and look at the garden for yourselves and to see our growing bananas.