Top Heavy Trees

Apparently banana trees are known to be top-heavy. They have great long broad leaves, and of course some have long pods drooping toward the ground with bunches of bananas.

As you might suspect, after about a week of very high winds and rain, several banana trees blew down. Although the groves are very close to my garden, and two tall Jamaican trees feel, they didn't squish my budding tomatoes or other garden plants. It was quite sad to see two tall trees -- about 18-20 feet tall -- toppled onto the ground. The sad thing was that both had several bunches of bananas just forming, but too young to be saved.

A day or two later two other tall trees, and one short one on the other side of the garden, also blew over. Banana groves need to be thinned out from time to time. These need thinning and care. If they hadn't been so close the first one that fell may not have hit another and taken it down too!

Otherwise the recent days of wind and rain didn't cause problems, and did fill water storage tanks for dryer spring time ahead. The garden seems to be thriving and with this rain it is all I can do to hoe the abundant weeds before they are everywhere!