Cavendish Banana First Bunch - The beginning and the end of it

 Well my patience paid out after 4 long years of my serious gardening foray. This Cavendish banana sprouted out a bunch of bananas in September last year. 

July 2019 is when this photo was taken and the banana tree had taken off after dying in a pot and coming back to life. The minute I planted it in ground it took off and grew

I reckon the chicken had a lot to do with its success

Silly me went and put a raised garden bed around it lol. Now there are 4 suckers growing and I need to remove the garden bed.

Sep 9th 2021 this appeared, it was wonderful to watch each section turn into a hand of banana

Today I went to visit and saw this, almost cried. the bunch of banana which weighed around 25kg was too heavy for the tree and fell over even though I had a piece of 2 x 4 wood holding the tree up. 

There are about 7 hands on this bunch and the bananas are still really hard.

I found another wasps nest in the making of that same chilli tree today so I removed the chilli tree

Wasps nest - WATCH OUT!!!

 I've seen this nest before when I went outside but forgot all about it until this morning when I went to check on my passionfruit vine.

I went back into the house and got "dressed" up to tackle the bugs.

Amazing creation, have never seen them build a nest like these in separate columns

All I could find for my face was this paint strainer bag

Here is the bag

Mwah all decked out and protected. Under there I had on a dress, pants, gum boots and I could only find 1 half of dish washing gloves so I put it on and put the other naked hand in my pocket and out I went.