It's the time of year that I dread...time to dig up the bananas. For those of us in colder zones with no greenhouse, we have to do it in order to ever get fruit. Everybody has their own methods of overwintering bananas.
Hi Frank!!
I have no idea if you'll even see this post-not sure when you posted the one I'm replying to.
I'm z5 and have many bananas on my deck in huge planters. Musa Basjoo is one kind, Ensete Maurelii is another. They are 15 to 18 ft tall, many pups in the pots, this is their second summer with me, as last fall I pulled them into the house, put them under 'grow lights' and they survived well enough as 'house plants' to bring them out this spring.
I origionally wanted to ask the question is it too late to put them into the ground and mulch them,(too late as in they wouldn't have time to become established) I really don't trust that, and when I saw your photos of how you 'cleaned them up', well, now this is a whole new story.
#1, What do you mean 'store them under your house'?? Do you put them in peat moss, like canna tubers? Can I get them out of their pots, cut them as you did,( but cut the whole stalk down), clean the roots, and put them into bins in my cool basement over winter?? If I can store them this way it'd be wonderful. My Ensete Maurelii is huge, and there is no way I can get her into my studio this year. Please, even if your not Frank, if anyone knows the answers, HELP!!!
