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Old 11-02-2011, 04:01 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Default Re: Storing bananas for winter!!! UGH!!!

Turning cold in a hurry here near DC ... I was away at a Scottish Festival in Richmond over the weekend
and when I came back we'd had a spurt of snow and winds ... poor 'nana plant was getting beat up -
so, yesterday I pulled it from the pot and dug it up as best I could! What a heavy plant!

In the photo below its standing on a black plastic trash bag waiting for me to carve off the pups and the excess soil ...

It's currently laying down by our screened in back porch, awaiting a decision where to store it -
the furnace is in the laundry room and it's pretty warm in the winter - not sure about standing it up
in our unheated shed (field mice would probably eat it!) - we have no crawl space or anything like that.
Next year I'll plant it right in the ground!

I did cut the pups off with a razor knife and put them in smaller pots in the living room
beside the super-dwarf cavendish plants and a couple Elephant ears I've repotted ...

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