Hello Everyone.....
Nice pics Heidi. It has been soooooo dry here too, we're down 5.5 inches for the past 90 days....and today is still 97 degrees,,,UGH. Glad to see your Bananas are doing well. I've attached a recent pic here. . Even though I spend a lot of the time in Cape May, I'm always driving home (1.25 hr) to check on my gardens. All my friends down the shore make fun of me all the time.....They just don't get it! LOL 🙄

Looking good guys/gals-

Heidi,hopefully you will have a warm fall to keep it going!

Are you guys leaving them in over winter?

Here's a picture of mine from 9-1-10
The 2 clumps next to the porch,between the 2 walkways.

The gutter is 11'-check out the Cannas to the left of the biggest clump
of Basjoos,almost 10' tall !

Amazing garden! I need to get that many Jim!

Even though I spend a lot of the time in Cape May, I'm always driving home (1.25 hr) to check on my gardens. All my friends down the shore make fun of me all the time.....They just don't get it! LOL 🙄

Thanks Mike - I understand what you're saying! these are our babies! I hope you get some kind of moisture soon .... your water bill must be getting up there! 😯 😀 We finally got a good soaking a couple of days ago. Broke records for the month of August in one day with a whopping 15mm! However we're back to our dry trend since.
The nanas look great since your last pics too!

Jim! HOLY COW..... WOW! 😯 My jaw dropped to the floor. What a cool yard, I wish I had that much room for all of that. Your largest nana clump is what I'm hoping to see next year with mine....and your cannas..I didn't know they get that tall! Must be the variety. I also see you have a butterfly bush down in the right corner of the pic. Looks like mine, which is called 'Black Knight'. Yes I'll be leaving the Musas in the ground. I use banana sleeves (an insulated tube) bought from the nursery and I just put it over the stalk and voila. Wasn't as easy last year when I lost mine to early frost before I could get to it. This year I'm armed and prepared!

Heidi

. This year I'm armed and prepared!

Heidi

Me too!

I already have all my preparations for
covering all my palms,that takes quite a bit of the stress off 😯

Jim I have plans for the palms too. Definitely takes the stress off when we plan ahead! I am anxious to see everyone's overwinter methods!

Heidi

I plan to leave the largest two outside (they're over 8 feet now and also leave their pups attahced. I'll cut the tops and mulch heavily and probably add some tar paper for dryness....Then wrap with white fluffy batting you use for Xmas as fake snow on your train sets and christmas villages....It will look like a snowman when i'm done and will never melt....Of course, our Doberman will probably make it turn yellow before long...maybe not such a good idea....As for the other smaller trees 6 feet tall, I'll cut out and bring into the house....woohoo! Only got up to 90 today, but still no rain for 3 weeks now, we are now down 6 inches...UGH!!!!! 😥

Mike, don't worry--hurricane season is just picking up. You'll get that missing 6" of rain -- all at once. --Erik

LOL, just give me a f%&$#in' advisory or a warning and I'll be happy! Jeez! 🙄

Weather Underground has been emailing me about Hermine for days (+ you see the "advisory" tag on my sticker right now. So, you'll know. Enjoy it. I'm liking Hermine right now; windows are open in the house so I can listen to the rain. --Erik

Trust me Mike a hurricane is not a good cure for our lack of rain! I'm willing to bet if a strong TS or cat 1+ hits your area you'll be wishing for a drought! Big oaks blown down everywhere is hard to look at! That's what I remember from the 2 hurricanes that have come through in my 30 years on Earth!

Use the hose, it's much safer 😀

Bill

As for the other smaller trees 6 feet tall, I'll cut out and bring into the house...

Mike

I wouldn't bother digging up Basjoos that size,IME they are more trouble than they are worth.

I tried that a few years ago,it seems to stress the big plant and it just pups and those take over,
at least in my case the big plants didn't so much.

Save a pup or 2 just in case,unless you just want some big Nanars inside! 😀

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So how much of the root system from the pups do i need to take inside to plant in a pot? do you just cut into the mother plant and take some of her roots to keep the pups going? I've never done this so I need advice.... Thanks guys!

I take a straight edge shovel and go straight down between Ma and the pup then,
I dig in from the side and lift it to get some roots,usually if you get even one tiny 1"
root that will be enough.

Thanks for the advice........They're really huge now. gonna leave some outside and bring some in too.