Specialty Gardening: Garden Shots 2- Summer's here, keep those pics coming!, 0 by LeawoodGardener

LeawoodGardener wrote:
I have so many bananas (it all started with one, given to me by a garden friend in 1994 - each year there are so many 'pups' I give away several and still have a dozen to plant in my own yard) that last year I experimented by leaving one in the ground to see if I could overwinter it with heavy mulch. I built a low (24") chicken wire fence around the tree, cut it down to the ground, and filled the fence ring with mulch. This spring when I uncovered it, all I had was mush - so much for my experiment (I was hoping I could devise a way to keep from all the digging and hauling to the basement - I'm too old to work that hard!). Some years I get them to bloom and make small bananas, but for the most part, they are just foliage.