Flowering banana tree at The Clarence pub in Silverhill, St Leonards. Steve Sivell, pub regular and keen gardener, and Steve Widget, pub landlord, explain more in this video.
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00:00 Here the plant was actually on my allotment and it was being tattered by the wind so I
00:06 brought it here in a shaded area and it's been here about five or six years now. This
00:10 is the first time it's actually had any fruit on it. Once you take the bananas off you have
00:16 to take this away, cut it right down to the ground and scrape out the bottom and fill
00:21 it with water and that stops any insects getting into the root in the ground. Well it was only
00:25 yesterday that I saw this, when did you see it? I saw it yesterday. You did as well yeah.
00:30 Yeah so. We might have our own range of banana beckles. Yeah. They're more of a cooking thing,
00:37 the actual pod here, if you strip the outer leaves off and you take the flowers away,
00:43 you can eat the flowers and then the actual pod itself you can just dice that up and do it with
00:48 the curry and garlic and stuff like that, maybe make a sort of puree out of it for dicks and
00:54 whatever. That's if you ever get wrong to do or not. And what do the customers think so far?
01:01 They didn't believe it either because this man likes to have fun with us. We've had a couple of
01:08 landlords including myself who have hung bunches of bananas on there or
01:12 pineapples and coconuts so no one actually believed that it was flowering.