Thought I'd update....the new leaves are finally not turning nasty anymore! Each of my bananas have 3 decent looking leaves on them now, and both soon to unroll another. I took a pic last night....
Would they benefit from fertilizing or no? I did mix some composted (home grown!) horse manure with the soil when I planted them, so I figure they should be ok. You may question the ring around them...well, I did that temporarily just to kill the grass...I plan on pulling the grass up and mulching around the bananas. Thought this was an easy way to do it. I'm watering them myself...we've not been getting much rain.
Also bought a BEAUTIFUL canna 'Australia' the other day....just gorgeous it is...and my caladiums are coming up...I may eventually have a bit of a tropicalesque garden yet! Ok, maybe next year!
One more question. So, maybe I'm wrong, but since we're already into July, I'm just not thinking these bananas will get very big this year. Would you dig them up and bring them inside their first winter?
This is how they looked the beginning of May, when I was setting them outside daily to get used to the outdoors. I can definitely see the p-stem is much wider....
