As Emma said the other week, we're finally getting some decent frosts, and so it was finally time to wrap up my Ensete ventricosum Maurelii bananas. They're not Jurassic, but they look ace and they were given to me by some lovely HTUK people, so I shall see how they get on.
This was one of my once-proud bananas:
All floppy from the frost and looking rather sorry for itself.
So I trimmed off the two big floppy leaves, leaving one complete leaf and a rolled up leaflet in the middle. I constructed a frame (well, "constructed" is a bit ambitious - more shoving three canes in the soil) for the fleece:
In the absence of straw I shoved as much paper shredding in as I could (on the basis that it can't ALL get soggy and wet):
And then piled the fleece on top and strapped it all in.
Do not copy me - I am sure straw is much better than shredded paper (although its the best use of my old mobile phone bills ever), and really you need chicken wire. This was just what I decided to do. I may have liquidised bananas come March, or they may have survived okay. We shall see!
This was one of my once-proud bananas:
All floppy from the frost and looking rather sorry for itself.
So I trimmed off the two big floppy leaves, leaving one complete leaf and a rolled up leaflet in the middle. I constructed a frame (well, "constructed" is a bit ambitious - more shoving three canes in the soil) for the fleece:
In the absence of straw I shoved as much paper shredding in as I could (on the basis that it can't ALL get soggy and wet):
And then piled the fleece on top and strapped it all in.
Do not copy me - I am sure straw is much better than shredded paper (although its the best use of my old mobile phone bills ever), and really you need chicken wire. This was just what I decided to do. I may have liquidised bananas come March, or they may have survived okay. We shall see!
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