Bananas

[Arch]

I seem to remember hearing once, that Iceland grows bananas, because they have the geothermal energy to heat the green houses. And I think there are banana growing, perhaps not to full ripeness, on the the West Coast of Scotland...

 

[wafflycat]

There's a garden centre in Norfolk that has a butterfly house attached. In the butterfly house, they grow bananas. When the bananas ripen you can buy them, apparently.

 

[wafflycat]

Wiki says this about Icelandic banananananananas

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Banana's what are grown? I know bananas are grown

but not on trees

 

[Cathryn]

I believe that actually, no, it's more environmentally friendly to ship the products from the caribbean than grow them in the UK. It's all to do with the energy needed to heat the greenhouses etc to grow them v the relatively low carbon emissions from shipping bananas.

It's definitely so for roses from Kenya v roses from Holland.

 

[Joe24]

It would never work. The banana's would be more expensive to no-one would buy them. The people working in the Banana green house would have to be paid more then the banana growers in other countries, making everything more expensive.
As for being better for the environment, it'll be about the same. The amount of heat needed i think would be more, the ships that normally carry these bananas will still be going, and so will the lorries transporting the bananas. So overall, no.
And anyway, how would the bananas trees get over here, they dont have seeds to make trees.

 

[Zoiders]

It would have to be a green house the size of Essex to keep up with demand in this country.

Notice my friends how no one seems to think that covering Essex in a giant greenhouse is actually a bad idea...

 

[alecstilleyedye]

bananas don't grow in trees! and they propagate new plants from cuttings. in theory, if the whole banana crop died the banana would become extinct.

 

[fossyant]

It would have to be a green house the size of Essex to keep up with demand in this country.

It would have to be that big just to supply my household...those and apples..... by the tonne !

 

[craigwend]

This?

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMS2gHFOH0


or this?

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUri8e0oYPM


Time for bed.......boing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Keith Oates]

If you were really serious about saving the banana 'footprint', just stop importing them altogether and only eat fruit that is grown naturally in the UK. I might add that I for one would not like that idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!