Roger's Tree Pick – Banana

Well as summer comes to an end, my tropical fruits and flowers articles will conclude with one of the yummiest fruits that is eaten around the globe – the banana.

There are mainly two divisions of bananas, the sweet eating types and the plantain which is cooked in many fashions.

The cultivars that have been developed around the temperate growing regions range into the hundreds. The cultivars are mainly grown from pups or set shoots off of the mother stalks with divisions of the rhizomes.

Bananas are doable here in the southland in warm/sheltered southwest facing spots in the garden and c...