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    I just noticed on their app that Lidl put fruit plants on sale yesterday which includes toms, strawberries and MUSO BANANA.

    Oh the reasons to buy a greenhouse now keep stacking up.

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  • #2
    A greenhouse the size of the one at Kew?
    How big can banana trees grow anyway?
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    • #3
      The way it's looking I'll just glaze over the entire plot

      How big do they grow - not sure, 8', maybe less if they're in a pot. It probably depends on the variety (which of course they probably don't know) as would fruiting and the edibility of the fruit.

      But still, ITS A BANANA

      New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle

      �I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
      ― Thomas A. Edison

      �Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
      ― Thomas A. Edison

      - I must be a Nutter,VC says so -

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      • #4
        I know several gardens where they grow them outside - but wrap them up in the winter! Looks very strange - like a garden full of Egyptian mummies!

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        • #5
          Here ya go! ....

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
            But still, ITS A BANANA
            Fair point, well made!

            I want a BANANA too now!
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            • #7
              Strangely- it's the one fruit I'd choose if I couldn't have access to any other fruit to eat.
              Typical that it's something very difficult to grow eh??
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              • #8
                I have a banana - they grow in the ditches around here, getting totally destroyed in the winter but by the end of the summer are a couple of metres high again. Never seen any fruit.
                Mine is more of an ankle biter at the moment!!
                Last edited by PyreneesPlot; 06-06-2015, 02:36 PM.
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                • #9
                  So I popped into Ladle and there, lurking in between the tomatoes and the strawberries was a single solitary banana plant - it lurks there no more.

                  It's a Musa Acuminata "Tropicana" which, according to Musa Super Dwarf Cavendish - Bananas Wiki is a super dwarf Cavendish - so there is a possibility, no matter how small, that one day it'll flower and bear fruit.

                  Unlikely in Newcastle but if I can't dream what can I do?

                  New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle

                  �I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
                  ― Thomas A. Edison

                  �Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
                  ― Thomas A. Edison

                  - I must be a Nutter,VC says so -

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                  • #10
                    I want I want I want!!!!!!!!

                    Shame I have no where to put it
                    Carrie

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                    • #11
                      I feel a trip to L1dl coming on......................I've just come back from H0m3b@se clutching an Apricot You need them for the fruit salad

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by cariann88 View Post
                        I want I want I want!!!!!!!!

                        Shame I have no where to put it
                        I don't have anywhere to put it. I'm just waiting till November when I can burn down my sheds to make room for a proper greenhouse.

                        Till then it'll stay in my see through shack. A long with my pomegranate, chillies, etc

                        New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle

                        �I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
                        ― Thomas A. Edison

                        �Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
                        ― Thomas A. Edison

                        - I must be a Nutter,VC says so -

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                        • #13
                          These bananas are elusive. Had to go to two L1dl's before I found one - literally only one. Looks healthy though and has one little pup.
                          Somehow, 3 Red Gooseberries and a Kiwi Issai (not from L!dl) also came home with me

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                          • #14
                            ANOTHER KIWI - what with the thug you've been fighting with and the kiwi berry you grew from seed you'd think you would have enough by now. How many trees that need to be covered by climbers do you have.

                            Of course the gooseberries I totally understand - following you along the street, whimpering and looking at you with those sad eyes.

                            Hang on - that's puppies not gooseberries. I need to recheck my pots.
                            Last edited by Jay-ell; 07-06-2015, 12:37 AM.

                            New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle

                            �I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
                            ― Thomas A. Edison

                            �Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
                            ― Thomas A. Edison

                            - I must be a Nutter,VC says so -

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                            • #15
                              I grew a banana from seed last year, it produced a great and stunning plant that sat on the patio last year. Took it into the greenhouse for protection over winter (it was supposed to be root hardy) and it's not come back this year . Planted the rest of the packet this year and nothing has come so one plant, for one year from 5 seeds on a packet.

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