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Olafhenny
08-07-2015, 01:23 PM
This thread…
Do We Really Need To Bury The Corm ? ;) - Bananas.org (http://www.bananas.org/showthread.php?p=262948#post262948)

…started recently by edzone9 had me pondering about some earlier posts complaining
about bananas being uprooted by tropical storms and such.

There is something like a ‘load cone’, which expands outwardly by the square of to
depth of a buried object. I.e., an object buried 8 inches deep is held down by 4 times
the load of the same object being buried only 4 inches deep.

Of course there are a number of other factors, which play into the equation, such as
tear resistance of the soil, which is higher in loam than in sand and most of all the
spread of the root base. But I can assure anybody living in a high wind storm risk
region, if s/he plants the corm under 1 foot of cover, as we often do here in the
frigid north, it will not be uprooted; - bent, torn off, flattened, maybe, but not
uprooted.

JP
08-08-2015, 02:40 PM
I second that!