Topic: banana musa bajoo

[viv]

Hi all

I have a young banana which has done well in the garden this summer -  but I have lost them in pots during the winter before when I have kept them in.  Any advice on looking after this during the winter would be much appreciated - should I pot it and risk damaging the root ball or fleece it? if I bring it in what should I do with it, ditto if I leave it out?

Thanks in advance

viv

[Roy Bham UK]

Can't understand why you lost them indoors over winter unless you watered them too much and they rotted, :-\  you can remove from pots if preferred and wrap them up in an old blanket or Hessian, covering root ball and stem and store them in a shed or garage. :)

If outdoors in the ground you could make something like this…out of plastic netting and fleece. :)



It should then withstand weather like this…notice the white stumps in the bed. 8)

[Mrs Ava]

I wrapped mine in a net tube then stuffed it with straw - survived last winter with leaves intact so is now even bigger!  ;D

[viv]

I suspect I watered them too much - presumably they do not want to be kept moist during the winter?

[Renton]

we wrap ours in bubble wrap and garden fleece.....the Basjoo came back in fine form but the Lasciocarpa took a little longer to get going.

[Roy Bham UK]

Did you mean garden fleece and bubble wrap? as the other way round tends to make the pseudostem sweat and rot. :o ;D