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Originally Posted by cheson74
I cover the base of the bananas with cut leaves, compost and misc green waste and they thrive. However, on an extremely rare night, the temperature might possibly drop to the high 50s during the winter but will warm up to the 70s and 80s during the day. The soil temperature never really drops because there isn't a prolong drop in temperature.
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That's actually not a good thing to do, if you live in an area with corm weevils and sigatoka. It will attract weevils and increase the moisture level between the ground and leaves which in turn increases your risk to sigatoka.
At night when the weevils are active the predators have a more difficult time of catching them in the yard waste opposed to a sandy surface.
A better way would simply be to cover the yard waste with a couple inches of sand. This will increase the moisture level below the soil surface while decreases the moisture level between the surface and the leaves.