Ben wrote:Bananas, how cool!
Do the plants die straight after harvest?
I'd love to have a go at a vegetable garden in a tropical climate.
The plants are related to lilies and gingers and, like them, die back after flowering and fruiting. A new plant will grow as a sucker from the same root. I pick the bunch by cutting through the trunk and letting it collapse - as gently as possible - to the ground.
Vegie gardening up here is largely a matter of watering during the Dry season and avoiding waterlogging in the Wet, because there's always plenty of sunshine. Some things need cold to trigger growth, e.g. apples and stone fruit, so we can't grow them, but most things can be grown okay. Tomatoes, capsicums, lettuces, melons, citrus, etc are great, and then we have the 'exotic' tropical stuff - sweet potatoes, lemongrass, lychees, etc.