After the big rain, everything has started to pick up again.  We have bananas coming out of our ears; we have been making banana flour.  Also, just eating them ripe and green.  Dogs, cat, piggies and duckies have obligingly helped us out with the bountiful harvest.

We are going to get a ton of jackfruit this year.  I can count at least 30 fruit on one tree only.  These “big babies” can get to about 22lbs (10kgs) in weight; if you have never seen one before, they look like big alien pods once they ripen.

Ripe Jackfruit: Big Babies!!

We have a huge patch of Snake Plant (also known as Mother In Law’s Tongue and St. George’s Sword).  I am not actually sure what they are called locally in Belize.  Apparently, the plants have some traditional medicinal value; mashed up snake plant is put into chicken drinking water as a natural antibiotic.  Incidentally, it is quite funny that, once upon a time, I used to buy these as pot plants from Ikea to decorate my living room!

This is a slender bamboo often called “fish-pole.” The diameter of this particular type is only about 1 inch (2.5cm).

They split very easily:

We are going to dry a whole bunch of these to make tiles or blinds?  Something useful anyway.  I am sure that the artistic ones out there can automatically see the potential!

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