You’ll see a robust banana tree throwing its elephantine leaves up to the heavens. Below those leaves, a clump of more than 100 green bananas pokes up from the trunk like a green mitten.

Pumpkin banana bread is the best of both worlds—sweet banana bread and warming pumpkin bread. Using really ripe bananas (we’re talking as brown as possible) and a cup of pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie ...