This picture will look odd, it is taken from above, and shows 4 young banana shoots / trees, savagely chewed / broken off near the soil level. Who or what does this kind of thing?
Last week, in preparation for
ceramics, I went out on Tuesday evening to look at what leaves would be useful, and then when I went out to cut some the next morning, my largest banana shoot was chewed / cut down near the base of the stalk. Now, a week later, all 4 shoots have suffered the same fate. But the leaves don't even look chewed, and only enough of the stalk to destroy the plant. What kind of creature would wreak such apparently senseless havoc? It couldn't be this masked bandit which makes himself at home in my yard, could it? He looks so sweet....
...doesn't he?
What do I need to do, to protect my dear bananas from this fate, if they ever re-sprout? Perhaps a roll of chicken wire around the whole set of them? Or do I spray them with hot pepper, and give this garden visitor a hot mouthful? Has anyone had a similar situation, and what did you do?
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