miaella

This is my second year trying to grow bananas. The first year was a good learning lesson in over watering...it equaled dead bananas (although, I think a couple corms were doomed from the start).

This year I moved to cold hardy plants in hopes of having an easier time. I bought five basjoos on ebay in early March and everything was looking great up until last week. Out of nowhere spider mites began to infest the bananas. I read a number of posts here where members had good luck with fish emulsion...

We'll, here's the lesson I learned. In many ways its a no brainier, at least in hindsight. I fertilized/sprayed the basjoos with the fish emulsion. The problem is, we have a bit of a raccoon problem. By the next day raccoons had dug up and destroyed the basjoos. I've replanted what I could but given their corm sizes size I doubt if any will survive the thrashing...

Look out for raccoons!!