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Old 09-25-2011, 10:45 AM   #13 (permalink)
cherokee_greg
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I never saw this before wow your mind must go a million miles a second ! What ideas you come up with. My chickens love the leaves too.
LOL Good job.



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Originally Posted by Blake09 View Post
...to over winter my bananas. In this post I am overwintering m. basjoo (shorter one) and Ice Cream 'blue java' (the tallest).





From this:



To this:



And then this:



And this is how I did it:

I learned alot along the way, and also made mistakes too. I didnt show, but I stuffed the barrels with straw.


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I had some Guinea Fowl help along the way too:






Some of the hundreds of Banana leaves... future compost, and guinea fowl food


I will be showing how I protected the bananas around my pond next...









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