MG Minute: Overwintering a Tropical Elephant Ear Plant (Part II)

Filmed in Georgetown Delaware, Zone 7b. Check with your local extension office for your specific method of overwintering/winter protection. Master Gardener, Brent Marsh, reveals the outcome of a long, harsh winter on an Elephant Ear plant. In the previous fall, Marsh, took precautions to help the plant survive the winter by cutting the stalks and then covering the remaining base with two bales of hay and a dark colored tarp for insulation. The bulb or taro root cannot be allowed to freeze or it will turn into mush. To learn more about Master Gardener programs, visit: http://extension.udel.edu/lawngarden/mg/