Hearty Banana Plant Winter Care - Beyond Tiki

8T 8FT Tiki Tiki Socialite Kansas City, MO Joined: Nov 30, 2003 Posts: 1411	8T 8FT Tiki Posted posted on Sun, Nov 4, 2007 3:48 PM We have had no problem keeping ours going now for 3 years. I wait until a freeze drops the leaves to half the plants pre-freeze height. A frost usually doesn't do this. Then I use a machete and lop off everything to about 3 ft. and do like you mentioned, I put a fence around the stalks and then dump all of the leaves and tiki carving shavings I can gather. I don't remove it until mid March and then it just does its thing all over again. Love these in my yard and almost no one else around here even tries to grow these. They turn a lot of heads as the cars go by! Good luck with your plants in their first winter.

We have had no problem keeping ours going now for 3 years.
I wait until a freeze drops the leaves to half the plants pre-freeze height. A frost usually doesn't do this. Then I use a machete and lop off everything to about 3 ft. and do like you mentioned, I put a fence around the stalks and then dump all of the leaves and tiki carving shavings I can gather. I don't remove it until mid March and then it just does its thing all over again. Love these in my yard and almost no one else around here even tries to grow these. They turn a lot of heads as the cars go by!
Good luck with your plants in their first winter.

Post #342026 by 8FT Tiki on Sun, Nov 4, 2007 3:48 PM