GROWING BANANAS in COLD CLIMATES? (Pt2) in our FOOD FOREST - YEAR 1, EP8
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Can you grow Bananas in a cold climate? Of course you can & we show you how in your garden. If your winters are cold and your garden has frosts YOU CAN STILL GROW BANANA TO EAT!
We also show you what a banana circle is and how you can construct it for your garden or food forest.
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My banana circle is my pride and joy and a bit of an experiment. While we're in central Portugal it gets very cold in winter as low as minus 7c or 19f and conversely up to 46c or 115f. So growing bananas used to humidity and no frosts is a challenge! This May they will be unwrapped after their first winter.... Fingers crossed!
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Can't wait for the unwrapping! 😊
I know! I'm super excited!!! The wrapped pots in the greenhouse have leaves pushing through so I'm Confident!!! 🍌🍌💛
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How does the banmas servive with balck cloth on it blockimg out sunlight
Is it shade cloth you've used?
The white cloth is horticulture fleece for keeping frost and cold put, that let's light through. The black stuff is, shade cloth. The idea, being by chopping the leaves off the banana go dormant similar to a bulb 🍌🌱🍌
I have a few dwarf bananas that are about 5 years old. I bring them inside during the winter as It's too cold by me. I have been chopping and dropping all the leaves on them for about a year and fertilizing. Do you think they will flower? Have you ever heard of them producing fruit in colder climates while spending time inside?
Hi most of the banana farmers, I follow say they rarely fruit in pots. However 10 mins from me the local agricultural shop had bananas fruit in a massive pot but they didn't ripen. Can you leave in the ground like me and wrap? I've seen multiple videos of people in super cold climates winter time getting fruit by wrapping in winter....
Alternatively sack barrow, and huge pots, change out some soil regularly for very organic compost mixed with composted animal fertiliser. In the uk I grew a ginormous Cavendish in a huge pot and it didn't flower. I think the key is, actually not the cold it's the level of light which in the uk is not enough.... Where are you? 🍌🍌🍌
@@TheWildlandsGarden I am in NJ the very top. Right on the border of NY state. It’s a zone 6. I don’t think I could wrap them and have them last. We get quite cold. A few snow storms every year. My pots are quite large. Well, if they don’t fruit, they are still easy to care for. I put figs in the ground a few years ago, the winter just about wiped them out. They are much hardier than a banana. Maybe I will up their animal fertilizer this year. Thanks
Pleasure and you do sound cold, or colder for longer so the ground freezes as figs are pretty hard. Why don't you plant one this spring after the risk of frosts, give it loads of manure over the summer and try wrapping in chicken wire stuffed full of hay as a test. As I have seen quite a few colder USA states where peeps are successfully getting their nana through really cold spells, worth a sacrificial experiment??
@@TheWildlandsGarden I may try it soon as we may be moving to a warmer climate after this summer. Thanks for your help
@@trudymautz4388 good luck and let me know how, they do 🌱🍌🌱🍌
How do you spell the kind of banana you growing.
Im in zone b and growing lady fingers but would like grow a variety with bigger bananas
Hi the green leaf banana are the same as commercial bananas you find in the shops the dwarf Cavendish. The Cavendish is the same but just a, way way taller plant. The red leaf will also make fruits, and is a musa ensente.
One of the absolute best for edible bananas vs cold tolerant is the blue java. It's harder to find and very expensive but I'm getting those this year.
What number zone b are you?
Funnily enough I'd love some ladies fingers! 🍌🍌🍌🍌
@@TheWildlandsGarden zone 9 b
We're 9a so a little bit colder than you in winter. Our frost last year went to minus 7c but only for a few hours so the ground rarely sets hard
@TheWildlandsGarden yeah we get clodest -5 degrees and only frosts for few hours probably starts 3am sun thaws it by 7pm. But we never get it so ground is hard. But other side of our city gets way worse frosts and puddles will ice over.
I'm closer to the beach in Christchurch new Zealand so it's nice micro climate
So very similar to us ❄️👌
Let me know how your banana do 👌🍌
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wow all that effort and cost for 98 cent bunch of banana's??
Here a cheap banana is 60cents, an average bunch in the food forest might yield 200 per plant. There's 5 plants maturing in the banana circle plus their off spring. So could get 1000 banana per season that's 600euro. Surely also gardening is about the joys and the challenges. Aside from banana being stunning plants. Then there's the way shop banana are produced, investigate that and you'll stop eating them. But yes love my nana 🍌
@@TheWildlandsGarden there is nothing like growing and eating your own. Yes you can get them cheaper but nothing tastes better then home freshly grown.
Absolutely cant beat home grown for flavour! 🌱🍌😊