My machete and I Felled the tallest plantains

 To provide more afternoon sun to my garden.   It seems to have helped to cut back the elephant ears earlier this week. You can see some green patches.  One thing I am learning is that it is not so easy to grow food.  We can grow just a little bit of our food.  We got and will get enough plantains to make about nine batches of plantain bread, or about 216 meals.  This has been the most prolific part of our garden.  If we realize that the plantains are about 1/3 of the ingredients, that means about 72 meals were provided by all those massive plantain plants.    This could be enough food for one person for three weeks.

It is a start.  But now the plantains are growing slowly, and tattering in the wind.  So to give more light to my poor crippled garden I got out my trusty machete and chopped down the tallest plantains at a level which I could reach.  I made sure that they would fall where they would not do any damage.   There are many small plantains to grow up next year.  This year they achieved 24 feet in height, and one of the large leaves was 8 1/2 feet long, and two feet wide.

This is an example of me prioritizing how my garden gets the sunshine.  Everything cannot get optimal sun all the time in my back yard