Dug up all my bananas, Freeze expected tonight

tmc2009 · 10-31-2010, 10:45 PM

I kept thinking winter would never come. Waited to the last minute and had to quickly dig up all my bananas and put them in the cellar for the short term, hopefully. They're beat up and we are expecting a freeze to night in the Boston area so I had to scramble to get them inside.

I wrapped them in burlap and put them in the cellar.

The largest one had to be over 50lbs.

I hope these won't be the same pictures I post under what I killed today a couple of weeks from now. I'm hoping to get a lean to built on the side corner of the house that will be L-shaped and will get sun all day.

willy1der · 10-31-2010, 10:49 PM

Looks good from here,its going to be a night low of 23f for the next few days this way too!!!

tmc2009 · 10-31-2010, 11:16 PM

These are from WillisOrchard so I'm not sure what they are yet. They were suppose to be ice cream and raja puri. I put them in the ground for the first time this summer and now I have three of each. Should I remove all the leaves if I keep them in the cellar for winter?

ShearMe · 10-31-2010, 11:33 PM

The leaves will just die over winter, so you might as well use them for wrapping up some fish and have yourself a pre-winter luau!!!

The Hollyberry Lady · 11-01-2010, 01:57 PM

I'll say we had a freeze in London last night!

That was pretty wild, eh Willy?

: o

kaczercat · 11-01-2010, 02:11 PM

Yeah Sherry over here we had it im sure just as bad, killed almost all my plants, still have caster in the ground few lower leaves got damaged, other then that 85 percent of the plants were wiped out ! i'll post some pics this evening

palmtree · 11-01-2010, 05:54 PM

I hope they do well! Looks like NYC will get close to a frost tonight, but probably not one yet. The worst case scenario will be some brown on the bananas, but hopefully that wont even happen! It feels like winter out there today. Why is it the SECOND November comes, all the mild weather is gone forever?

paula · 11-03-2010, 07:59 AM

I left my trees out in the frost the leaves look bad, can anyone tell me if the corm are still good to bring in for next year please help

tmc2009 · 11-03-2010, 11:36 AM

It got down to 28F last night. There was frost on the roofs and cars. I think bananas are mostly water so any damage will quickly show up in the form of mushy areas. I think the corm will have protection in the soil until you get a hard freeze and the frost line penetrates deeper into the soil. If you can't dig them up there are plenty of examples in this forum of what peaple are doing to protect bananas left outside. Here in Massachusetts I don't think I can do anything short of just having a greenhouse build over them.

RobG7aChattTN · 11-03-2010, 07:58 PM

I'd cut the leaves off. The more leaves left on the more moisture loss you will have with the corm. You don't want them to dry out over the winter.

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