Our Banana Tree Sprouted the Cutest Keiki
One of our beautiful banana trees has sprouted a keiki (bottom left)! The circle of life, aloha.
Last night, I started incubating fresh turmeric rhizomes. It will take two years for the plants to reach maturity here in Zone 6.
Last night I also planted
four avocado pits in soil and covered them with a DIY greenhouse made from the
bottom of a liter soda bottle. If one or more of these pits takes off, I plan
to bonsai them.
We’re
making an addition to this year’s food garden: sweet potatoes. We’ve grown
white and red potatoes, but organic white and red can be found at the market
for a reasonable price. Sweet potatoes are more expensive. And I’ve never eaten
a garden-fresh sweet potato. This is something I’d like to grow. I’m researching
best ways to cultivate them in a relatively short growing season like ours.
Last
night, I started incubating fresh turmeric rhizomes. It will take two years for
the plants to reach maturity here in Zone 6. They can winter indoors, which
makes it possible to produce our own turmeric roots. Incubation just jump
starts the germination process, plus it’s easy.
Just moisten some fresh
rhizomes, place them in a screened Ball jar, and place in a warm spot in the
house (they’re under the grow lights). Moisten them every day, but make sure
they have plenty of air circulation. Ginger and turmeric rhizomes will rot
quickly if kept wet.
News! One of our beautiful Poquino banana trees has sprouted a fat, healthy
keike (pronounced “KAY-kee”). This tells me that the plant is robust and
interested in expanding its horizons. I’m so thrilled with the ongoing health
of all our banana trees.
The
Basjoo, which has grown big, will be good to go outside in June, and I plan to
buy two more to add to the mound where they’ll live permanently. The Thai Black
Stem variety are coming along, three plants tucked in one big pot. The pot will
go outside in summer and come indoors in winter. And the poquino will do the
same. But I must research how to remove this lovely little keike without
damaging it or the parent plant. Then, we’ll have two potted Poquinos. I just
love banana plants.
To
follow up on yesterday’s post, I’ve closed my LinkedIn account. With each
social platform I withdraw from, I feel more as if I’m headingin the
right direction. LinkedIn in particular, after years of being a member, did
nothing whatsoever for my career. All it did was give prying people a chance to
watch my life. Namaste and I love you with all my
heart nonetheless, but it’s time for all of us to move on.
The
wind today is fierce. This is a split-personality-type March day. The sun is
bright and warm, but the wind is cold and sharp. The days will climb into the
50s from next week onward, but the night will continue to freeze. I moved our
bird feeder into the sun so the birds can warm their feathers while they eat.
Soon, they’ll be scrambling to and fro, building their nests. What a gorgeous
time of year.
Live
in peace.
