Go Bananas! A Banana Cultivation Workshop

Go Bananas! 🍌

A hands-on workshop for growing bananas at home

Bananas are an incredible plant: fast-growing, productive, and surprisingly versatile. Whether you’re keen to grow your own bananas at home or simply want to learn more about this wonderful fruit, come and Go Bananas!

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the banana plant from the ground up: how it grows, what it needs, and how we can work with its natural growth patterns to create healthy, productive plants.

We’ll cover:

Getting to know bananas: Banana plant physiology, how they grow, and the different types and varieties available.

Where bananas thrive: Understanding climate, sun, shelter, soil, water and other factors that influence where to plant.

Site analysis: Learning how to assess your site and choose the best spot for bananas.

Planting bananas: How to prepare the site, plant banana pups, and give them the best start.

Maintaining bananas: Pruning, managing suckers, feeding, mulching, watering and keeping your banana patch healthy and productive.

Future-proofing your banana patch: Designing for healthy establishment and creating a resilient system that becomes increasingly self-sustaining and requires minimal inputs over time.

Growing and harvesting: Understanding the banana cycle, when to harvest, and how to keep your patch producing year after year.

We’ll combine practical knowledge with hands-on planting, giving you the confidence to take what you learn home and start growing your own bananas.

Come curious, leave ready to grow bananas!