Guide to growing bananas on the Gulf Coast

Guide to growing bananas on the Gulf Coast (Finch) | al.com

Some of you look at the tattered brown leaves of your banana in December and long for banana pudding made with your own bananas.

Some of you long for the day when all you had to do was whack your brown winter bananas to the ground and forget about them.

And some of you just want to find your way out of the banana confusion that prevails at this time of year.

What, pray tell, are you to do with your bananas when the first frosts of December turn the leaves into rattling brown tatters? What do you do with banana bunches if they’re not green? What do you do if you want a bunch of bananas next year? What do you do if you don’t give a fig for bananas?