Originally Posted by harveyc

I was thinking about this some last night and wondering why the raccoon went after your banana plants. We have quite a few raccoons around here and I've never heard of them doing damage to plants. We had quite a problem with them when we fed pets outside so we quit doing that as I didn't like trapping and killing them. When there was no pet food, there seemed to be no reason for them to come around. Since we live in the country, I don't need to worry about a neighbor attracting them with pet food. I still wonder what the raccoons liked so much about banana plants. I do know that winegrape growers near here have sometimes had grapes eaten by raccoons, but I can understand eating a juicy sweet grape better than a sappy/sticky pseudostem.