How to Protect Your Banana Tree from a Freeze! Works in zone 8!

Growing a banana tree in non-Tropical zones can be challenging! I’ll show you how you can protect your bananas with a simple solution that is extremely inexpensive, quick, easy, and effective!

Time-stamps are listed below to make it even easier to reference the information later!
TIME-LINE:
00:00 – Short Introduction

00:26 – Problems in the garden: Dealing with Banana Plants in the Fall in non-Tropical zones
01:34 – What is a Banana Tree & How does it work?
02:08 – Potting up and Planting out: From purchasing banana plants to planting
02:47 – The First Freeze: What I did to protect my banana trees *hint not much, just a sheet over the top
03:28 – The First Freeze Damage: How did the bananas do?
03:38 – What kind of protection from freeze does a Banana really need?
04:06 – Protecting the Stems and Rhizomes
04:41 – The Second Freeze: How did they do?
05:23 – The Great Snow-pocalypse of of 2021: What did I do and did it even work to protect the banana trees?
06:15 – The Results: Did we save the bananas?
06:34 – SO what did we learn about overwintering banana plants?
07:15 – Going all in: Will protecting your banana trees from freeze work for you?
07:54 – Share the video to anyone you know who wants to overwinter their banana plants in the ground!
08:09 – Live you best well balanced life and thank you!
08:34 – OUT-TAKES & Funnies: The Nugget show! *he’s the big rooster

Thanks for taking the time to watch this video! If you’ve had success overwintering your Banana trees in the ground using this or any other method, tell the everyone in the comments. I always love to hear how other people do things and it helps us all learn!

Thanks again and don't forget to get your hands dirty!

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