Banana trees: tell me your experience.

I’ve only ever heard bad things about banana trees.

My grandmother lived in Brownsville Texas and grew bananas. That was 30 years ago and they were very a small variety but super sweet and delicious. I remember eating several each trip down there and she would do a dish similar to bananas foster without the alcohol (which is ironic because she was a terrible alcoholic) and I would destroy it.

Every time I got close to getting bananas from my trees a hurricane would come and knock them down.

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I’ve only ever heard bad things about banana trees.

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Had the whole width of my backyard full of banana trees when I move here in 92. I got small bananas from them but they were more trouble than what they were worth for me do deal with.

A few freezes in the winter months found them needing to be cut down and hauled off and that is nothing but water weight for the most part.

Read up about them to make sure to keep them trimmed so more fruit can be produced if yours ever start producing.

I tired of them and took them completely out, but it was a long tedious process. I initially tried digging them out but my clay soil made that very difficult. I started cutting ANY growth down to ground level whenever it showed above soil level and that eventually killed the plants since no photosynthesis could occur.

I've been banana tree free for over 25 years now and don't miss them one bit. Same with elephant ears and hidden ginger plants too.