Luscious Bananas on one of our many treesWhen we moved to the farm 3 years ago, we were lucky enough to inherit a lovely 2 1/2 acre established garden along with the house, which had been lovingly laid out by one of the previous farm manager's wives (who - amazingly - also happened to be a landscape gardener !)
The house and garden are over 35 years old, so we have some well established fruit trees which include -: banana, orange, tangerine, peach, avocado pear, pomegranate, mulberry and figs. We also have a macadamia nut tree and some gooseberries. So, I would say that we are truly blessed in the fruit department - that's if the birds don't get to them first !
The banana tree's are laden with large, green bunches of bananas at the moment - as you can see in the photo above - and in a few days the bunches will be cut down and left to ripen until they are a deep, golden colour. You really haven't tasted a banana, until you've tasted a Tanzanian banana. They are nothing like the bland offerings found on supermarket shelves ....
(When you see me posting some banana recipes, you'll know that the banana's have ripened !)
