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Best way to get rid of Banana Trees
Posted on 5/5/21 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 5/5/21 at 2:33 pm
Have some growing in a corner of my yard and I would like to place a shed there. I want to get rid of them for good, and not have them growing around/under my new shed. 
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Posted on 5/5/21 at 2:42 pm to honeytiger
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To kill a banana plant, you can cut it down and remove all suckers that may sprout around the base; you can dig it up entirely; you can apply a chemical herbicide; or you can fill a cut stalk with kerosene.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 3:00 pm to honeytiger
Move.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 3:06 pm to honeytiger
Do you have access to a nuclear weapon?
Posted on 5/5/21 at 3:09 pm to honeytiger
dig them up. then put gasoline and burn it.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 3:22 pm to honeytiger
Shovel and lots of sweat equity
Posted on 5/5/21 at 3:25 pm to honeytiger
Posted on 5/5/21 at 3:43 pm to honeytiger
Kerosene as mentioned (cup) on cut stem or inject with needle/syringe 2 ml undiluted 41% concentration glyphosate at eye height in a couple places on stem.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 3:44 pm to honeytiger
I tried everything to get rid of mine. Nothing worked. Had to just bite the bullet and spend an entire day digging them up. Good luck
Posted on 5/5/21 at 5:08 pm to honeytiger
Mix 24d and glyphosphate and dawn. Cut to the ground. Spray.
Done. They wont come back.
Done. They wont come back.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 6:21 pm to honeytiger
Salt. Cut them down and pour some salt on the base of stalk. Don't expect any lush, green grass to grow there.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 10:53 pm to Babewinkelman
Plant bamboo.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:11 am to honeytiger
I've posted this before on this very topic. I had lots of banana plants at the rear of my property when I first moved to it in 92.
I cut them down and digging them up was not going to happen in my heavy clay soil, so every time ANY green showed it's head above ground I shaved it off with a shovel. This eventually killed the plants due to them not going through photosynthesis to keep the plants alive.
This method also works for Elephant Ear plants and Hidden Ginger since I also had an abundance of that in my yard at one time.
I cut them down and digging them up was not going to happen in my heavy clay soil, so every time ANY green showed it's head above ground I shaved it off with a shovel. This eventually killed the plants due to them not going through photosynthesis to keep the plants alive.
This method also works for Elephant Ear plants and Hidden Ginger since I also had an abundance of that in my yard at one time.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 5:17 am to gumbo2176
I had a quite a few in my designated area when I bought my current house. Paid someone to come in with a tractor and buckets and dig all of them up and haven’t had an issue since.
Posted on 5/7/21 at 3:29 am to honeytiger
Inject each main stalk with pure weed master.
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:19 am to honeytiger
When I was in my 20s I cut a dead one down with a lawnmower. Cue “adult onset asthma”. Doc laughed when I gave him my diagnosis. Lab work came back with 30 percent eosinophils. He looked at it and said “well crap, you are correct “. Anyways, if you start wheezing when dealing with it... there’s your diagnosis.
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:37 am to honeytiger
Banana trees, not even once
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:47 am to wickowick
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Banana trees, not even once
see, i am virulently anti-bamboo, but i like banana plants if kept contained. matter of fact i just planted one this past weekend.
Posted on 5/7/21 at 10:07 am to cgrand
air burst nuclear weapon. set detonation to go off about 20 feet above the patch of targeted banana trees.
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