Kostas

Hello,

I have been reading about many of you protecting your bananas for the winter now as cold weather approaches you and have been trying to find out if i need to protect my sole ground planted banana,my Ice Cream with about 6ft of pseudostem now. Most of the people whose winterizing methods i have been reading here are in zones a little worse or better than mine and i would like your help decided wether i need to protect my banana or not to hopefully get bananas the coming year. I have my Ice Cream planted from last May/June,in Melissia,Athens where we get a few -2C to -3C random nights in the winter and half a week of below 0C night temprature days with snowy weather on some of them. We get a good deal of snow that week and see tempratures from 0C to -3C most often(a little above 0C during the day) but we can also see -6C in bad years once every 4years and i think we have once seen close to -10C,-12C. I do have warning when its gonna get that low so i can protect the last minute if we get a bad winter this year. But in a normal winter with tempratures down to -3C or -4C only,do i need to protect and how,for the pseudostem to survive and produce bananas next year?
What should i do in the case of a bad winter? The less time it takes to protect and the less ugly it is,the better!

Thank you very much in advance!

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