Tropicals & Tender Perennials: musa basjoo: z6 -ovr wintering???, 1 by joegee

joegee wrote:
I have musa basjoo outdoors down in Bucyrus. It's planted in a sheltered window well along a heated foundation. I mulch it every year with a few feet of raked leaves. It does fine for me -- it hit ten feet this year before the freeze.

Last year in the spring after the last hard freeze I removed the leaves, poured on a slurry of water and dissolved hard wood fire ashes, and it rocketed upwards at about two feet a month. :)

-Joe