Death to Banana Trees!!!

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samgotit

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Please, someone, tell me how to kill these Godforsaken demon plants.

I have tried:
1. Cutting them often.
2. Diesel fuel to the root ball.
3. Cutting them and covering with black plastic.
(I had them covered for quit a while and finally they began to look a little yellow and haggard. Katrina came and blew off all the tarps. When I was able to return home the damn things where 8' tall and perfect again.)

I can't kill these damn things!!!!!!!!!

Thanks,
Sam
 
Uproot them. Better yet invite forum member's over to test thier Blade's [a la Tom Sawyer and Hukelberry Fin}:D
 
Round up Brush killer with 14% glyphosate ....spray on foliage in the morning...on a sunny day...in a week or two they will be dead as a shiitbug..
 
Um, SALT....
Shouldn't be too hard.
On second thought forget that, you might want something to grow after you've killed them.
 
I agree with the brush killer or weed killer. Just spray and it will be dead soon enough.
 
Hi All,
Cut them off as close to the groung as you can , then cut a v shaped notch into the top of the stump to let the water in , a little roundup ct as suggested will put paid to their account , let them rot out for a while then dig them out. GOOD LUCK LOL !!!!!!!:D
 
Pop down to the local Zoo and borrow an elephant. They make short and devastating work to Bananas. Your neighbours may complain.
 
Hire me as your gardener. I have been known to kill plastic plants. Put them in one evening and the next morning the leaves were falling off.
 
As a kid I lived in Veracruz, Mexico with my grandparents, their business was oranges but there were also some banana trees, at least three varieties if I remember correctly (tabasco, manzano and dominico). There was a special room where they were placed to mature after they were cut off the trees, since there weren't many they were for local consumption, I liked them, what's so bad about bananas?

Luis
 
That was my thoughts also. I eat a lot of bananas - having some trees sounds pretty good. Although I think the snow and freezing cold in the winter would make 'em not so healthy.

Maybe they are causing property damage.
 
I do like them. In fact, I had a real nice small patch of 8-10 trees about 30'-35' tall before Katrina hit that made my back yard look like a stylized drawing of a desert island...but they have taken over now and hold massive ammounts of water. In south La that is a bad thing. Mosquitoes use them as a nursery!

Sam
 
Banana trees are not trees, they are plants. So you have to handle them like how you handle unwanted plants.
The short answer is ask your neighbour's gardener.
 
chop em down to about 2 feet from the ground, drill as far in as you can get about 6" apart... and fill the holes with either:
1: roundup and let it sit for a week or so
2: napalm and light it up after you reach saturation point(might be able to fit a litre into each hole if you have time)
 
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