Tropical Zone Gardening: Bananas in Ohio?, 1 by ceceoh

ceceoh wrote:
My friend planted some very tall bananas in his garden this summer. Since he was moving to another place, he said I could take some and try to get them to grow next year.

I read in an article that bananas could be dug, up, stored in a cool basement or crawlspace with the leaves attached, and could be replanted next year from the corms. Trouble is, I had a lot of trouble getting some "pups" from these bananas. I even broke a shovel trying to get around one of these huge trunks (three stories tall in one summer? Yikes!)

Anyway, here is what I got: the two small bananas came out fairly easy, and I am storing them intact in my basement. Is this the right way to do this? Then I got these three pups, but I'm not sure there is enough of a corm there to sprout next year. Did I get enough of the plant to regenerate it next spring?