From now on, all my banana plantings will be at least 2ft deep. I pretty much built a fortress around my basjoos which kept them looking exactly the same as before I covered them, but if I get them even deeper, I might not have to go through as much trouble of protecting them. Perhaps, I could just put 1 leaf bag filled halfway with leaves over the whole thing, and hope it protects the main stem.
This was the protection I did last fall, which may have been a little bit of over-kill, but it was probably necessary given it fell to -9F this winter. When I took a peek, I was a bit surprised to find the whole stem green.
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