Very hard winter this year
Toasted nanner trees. Guess I'm not getting bananas this summer.
My greenhouse is largely toast right now thanks to the Arctic blast that dropped temps way below normal. No other winter has affected the plants like this one – the earth-mass has performed marvelously in all the winters without extra heating. This time around, the earth-mass still performed well – I would have lost everything otherwise – but it wasn’t quite enough. Normally, the worst that happens is a few browned banana leaves on really cold nights. This time around is another story altogether – that Arctic blast was severe for this part of the country. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen it so devastated. I have had less damage in top-side greenhouses with failed heaters. I’ll only know what survived come Spring. It’ll be painful, tho, to haul out all the dead pots and try to catalog the losses. Many of these plants I’ve had for years and some are from seed.
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