About half of winter is already over and after checking on my mekong giant plug plants that were planted in the fall with hardly enough time to grow at all, their stems still look green under the leaf bags so there's a good chance they will survive and increase in size when it warms up.
I plan on taking off the leaf bags and replacing them with wall o waters to give them an early start by around April, and hopefully by around May, they can make it back to the same size they were before getting fried by the cold weather.
Here's how they looked in the fall.
Steve's garden: Fall update on the banana plants #2