When you don’t bring a measuring device, measure in cubits!
![[Banana cubit 2025-03-23]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-03-24--another-banana-cubit/20250323_174531.jpg)
Gretchen had recently lopped off the freeze-killed tops of these banana plants, and she was observing how much they had grown out since. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Banana
Banana flower 2024-05-27
Always good to see the first flower of the bananas.
![[Gretchen and the first banana bloom of the year]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-05-27--scarecrow-banana-rosemallow/20240527_101151.jpg)
Gretchen and the first banana bloom of the year
Bananas are not trees, you know. They are very large bulbs.
![[Blooming banana]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-05-27--scarecrow-banana-rosemallow/20240527_101158.jpg)
Gretchen has several varieties of bananas.
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Grapes, beaver pond, sycamore, beggarticks, bananas, cypress swamp, dogs 2022-08-10
A walk in the woods one summer day.
![[Grapes, sycamore, banana, cypress swamp]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2022-08-10--grapes-beaver-pond-sycamore-beggarticks-bananas-cypress-swamp/many.jpg)
Grapes, sycamore, banana, cypress swamp
Those grapes were ripe and tasty. Muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia. This is down by a beaver pond. Continue reading
Beautyberry, boats, bananas, fire 2020-10-04
Around Okra Paradise Farms this morning.
![[Beautyberry with boats, bananas, and wood fire]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-10-04--beautyberry-banana-fire/many.jpg)
Beautyberry with boats, bananas, and wood fire
Also grapevine. And I keep pulling up Continue reading
Gretchen in the banana forest 2020-09-14
These banana trees are only a few years old, but they’re making bananas.
![[Gretchen, Bananas, and dogs]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/many.jpg)
Plus a pack of four dogs!
Continue reading![[Gretchen and the banana bloom]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/20200914_084954.jpg)
Peggy catches bananas 2019-10-13
Gretchen in her Banana Trees 2018-11-05
Gretchen with her banana trees.
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Five weeks of a banana tree
Gretchen got a dozen or so sticks of banana trees. Here’s one that happens to be in front of a camera.
