StarostkaD

This was my first winter of having bananas and then we had the historic artic blast. We were lucky and only lost power for a few hours and kept running water just a trickle of pressure and then boiling it.

But the yard.... I had the bananas deeply mulched and insulated up to about 2' just for normal wintering. When the weather forecast looked so bad, I wrapped christmas lights around them, added thick moving blankets around them and tarps and plastic to keep the snow and ice off.

Now that we are back to normal weather, I removed the extra stuff and can reach down into the mulch and some of the bigger stalks feel pretty firm to the touch.

My question - at what point should I remove all the wintering mulch and cut them back to the firm part to see if they will come back?

Thanks. It's been a rough few weeks and if I lose some landscaping, I am soooo much luckier than many.