"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:36:20 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:


Hey, it *is* boating related.

Eisboch

Indeed, but he doesn't seem to know anything.


Jim's having a little fun here as a break from growing bananas. "Growing"
.... not "going".

Jim grows bananas?

Kewl - does he have to cut the tree down after the harvest so it will
regrow bananas?

I read that somewhere.

In the wild they get 1 bunch of bananas from a banana tree and the trunk is
done. Another trunk is already growing. In the commercial groves they get
2 crops a year. All the fertilizer and bug sprays get the trunk to produce
a bunch in 6 months. Unfortunately when the rains come, lots of fish in the
river and the ocean die from the runoff. Learned earlier this year on a
trip to Costa Rica. The bunch may be too high to cut off, so they just
slice the trunk and pull it over to get to the bunch. Need pics of
processing bananas, I can email or post overthere.