
Musa 'basjoo'
Overwintering bananas
- Remove all the leaves except the main one growing from the centre, if this is quite large then cut it in half.
- Wrap the stem in fleece to a depth of 40mm-50mm. Do not wrap it tight, try to make it a loose and bulky. This layer acts as the main part of the insulation.
- Wrap this fleece with a double layer of bubble plastic all the way from the top to the bottom of the stem. Go over the top by about 1/2m, fold 25cm of this over on itself and tape it down.
- Peg the bottom of the bubble plastic to the ground making sure that you don’t spike a root and that is your banana safely put away for the winter.
- Open the folded over top in the spring when the weather warms, say around the end of March
- Towards the end of April and the start of May and the risk of frost has passed you can remove the cover completely.
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