Visited Nicks 5 acre banana farm on Lake Okeechobee Saturday and loaded up big time. Took a dozen local banana nuts with me including 2 trailers. With 2000 mats in the ground for 3 years there were about 15,000 pups to choose from.
One guy wanted a chunk of Kandarian corm and it took him quite a while to dig it out. Had to weigh over 50 lbs.
One gal loaded up her trailer with 20 pups, or so, and 3 or 4 bunches of fruit. While digging pups she had unfortunately ripped open the back of her pants. Didn’t even slow her down. She just kept on pulling up pups with a shovel in one hand and the seat of her pants bunched up in the other.
There were extra machetes and we started looking for fruit. The Hua Moa was a favorite, and most folks took home a hand or a whole bunch. Also harvested were Dwarf Namwah, Misi Luki (the Agristarts one), FHIA-17, Gran Nain and several plantains. For myself, I cut down a sampling of Burro, Dwarf Puerto Rican, Dwarf Superplantain and a hand of Hua Moa.
I also cut my finger on my digging bar helping someone pull out a big sucker. Just wrapped it up tight in a hand towel and kept going.
It was like a frenzy. Plant lust, plain and simple! Most of us were covered in the famous black muck soil of Lake O by the end of the 3 hour dig-fest.
It was a real great day – Thanks Nick!
