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Old 11-07-2010, 10:45 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Cold The time has come...
...to over winter my bananas. In this post I am overwintering m. basjoo (shorter one) and Ice Cream 'blue java' (the tallest).





From this:



To this:



And then this:



And this is how I did it:

I learned alot along the way, and also made mistakes too. I didnt show, but I stuffed the barrels with straw.

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I had some Guinea Fowl help along the way too:





Some of the hundreds of Banana leaves... future compost, and guinea fowl food


I will be showing how I protected the bananas around my pond next...









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