geraniums..how to store in winter

[Julius Heinis]

Gary Bachman (bachman.9 at osu.edu) wrote:
: You had better sit down for this one.  To store geraniums over the winter follow these steps:

: 1)  Remove the plant from the container
: 2)  Gently shake the soil/media from the root area
: 3)  Put the bare root plant upside down in a brown paper bag
: 4)  Hang up in your garage, basement, crawl space, etc.(unheated)
: 5)  In the spring plant what looks like a dead plant
: 6)  Enjoy another seasons bloom

: It might be a good idea to dust with a fungicide before "bagging" the plants as sometimes 
: funky fingi will grow in the bag

Seems like a lot of work! We used to just put the pots away in
your number 4). For spring we just took the plants out, prunned
them and had nice flowers. We might have repotted them, though.
JULIUS