Re: Where to plant????
We get more frost than you do, and my bananas are very happy planted in the ground. Mine are all planted near the house, which helps. If the overnight temperature is likely to drop to 28-32, I'll cover the small the bananas, and that's usually enough. If it really gets cold, I just give up and cut the plants down. They'll come back again. Sometimes I cut a tall banana down ahead of a hard freeze and just protect its pseudostem so that it will bounce back faster in the spring.
In my opinion, the superior growth you'll get in the ground is worth the risk of freezing back to the ground.
Nancy
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