Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>]

Actually it probably won't be scientists depending on what you call a scientists. I mean the ones with the white coats in labs and fancy degrees, my bet is it will be someone in overalls out in a plantation, who carefully saves seeds and finds one that's immune one day. There are hundreds of species of bananas world wide, my botany book says they originated either india, and/or malaysia, and/or indonesia.

--pete

--- On Tue, 1/4/11, Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Better Eat Those Bananas ... While You Still Can
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 10:52 AM

Here is Lubbock, I buy organic, Cavendish bananas and they are good tasting.  Eat 2 a day.  It is the only fruit available, all year, that always good tasting.  99¢ per lb.

 

I can buy  two varieties of the little bananas: one red and one yellow.  Not organic.  These have a short growing season. 

 

Bananas are picked green.  In times past, they were sealed in a boat and gassed to ripen.  Now the green bananas are put in ocean containers, put on the ship, and gassed in the warehouse.

 

I question the world is going to be without bananas. Scientists can solve the problem!

 

Ken H

 

 

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