Re: banans

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• To: <g*@hort.net>
• Subject: Re: [CHAT] banans
• From: &* F* <d*@pacbell.net>
• Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 21:11:12 -0700
• References: <936AB742-CC2F-11D8-B76D-000A959AC6B4@rnet.com>

No, actually the leaves die down but the stalk remains.  I leave the dead
leaves on through winter until last frost date then I chop the whole thing
down to about 2' high.  Within a month or so it's back to it's majestic 12+
feet tall.

David Franzman
A Touch of the Tropics
www.atouchofthetropics.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cathy carpenter" <cathyc@rnet.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] banans


> Yes, but doesn't it die to the ground each winter?
> Cathy
> On Thursday, July 1, 2004, at 10:23 PM, David Franzman wrote:
>
> > Musa basjoo is good to -20.  That has to be close.  Of course the fruit
> > isn't edible though.
> >
> > David Franzman
> > A Touch of the Tropics
> > www.atouchofthetropics.net
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:14 PM
> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] banans
> >
> >
> >> Any hardy to zone 5?.... like that would kind of retain their leaves
> >> so
> >> you don't have to start from scratch every spring?!?
> >>
> >> Donna
> >>
> >>>
> >>> There was discussion some time ago about the lack of diversity among
> >>> bananas, how growers had bred diversity out of them, and that they
> >>> had
> >>> become an endangered species--subject to various diseases.
> >>>
> >>> To this I wish to add--from another list--that an Icelandic scientist
> >>> [go figure] on expedition in Micronesia has found and classified 14
> >> new
> >>> species of Musa.
> >>>
> >>> Island Jim
> >>
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