Making a greenhouse around bananas?
What are your ideas on this:
I have some baby musa basjoo's that I planted. All their existing leaves got sunburned and they are wilting off. Temperatures are supposed to be in the 50s for highs for the foreseeable future here after tomorrow. Ugh, spring in Wisconsin sucks sometimes. I was thinking of taking a gallon milk jug and cutting the bottom off to make a "greenhouse" and put it over each plant on sunny days to make a warm microclimate to encourage them to start putting out leaves. A few plants are down to just stems with a really tiny baby leaf emerging. I want to speed this up as much as possible so I can get some decent sized plants this summer. I'm thinking this milk jug idea will boost temperatures into the 70s or 80s inside the enclosure even though its only in the 50s outside.
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