Originally posted by River City Girl: Must I toss these beautiful plants come winter or can I bring them in the house to plant again in the spring? I live in north western Pa. Thanks!
Greetings! I take cuttings off of my Geraniums and re-root them in jars of water. They grow all winter inside on my window sills and I replant the cuttings in the spring as normal, outside. They grown and bloom all summer and then I start all over.
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Posts: 6 | Location: Petal, MS, USA | Registered: Feb 15, 2003
I generally bring in the whole plant, but ... Last year I planted a whole bunch of seeds, guess like 25 or so and then planted then in my gardens. They did so well from seeds I think I'll skip bringing them in this year and just plant seeds again this winter. They are easy to grow in peat pellets and are cheap seeds to buy at Walmart. Probably less than two dollars a pack.
Posts: 9484 | Location: quilt and garden paradise | Registered: May 10, 2003
RCG, if you have a place that is constantly cool, dark and dry, you can store your saved geraniums as a plant. Just knock off loose soil after digging and hang them up upside in that place. In February or March bring them out, cut them back to about 4" - 6", remove all leaves and old stems, give them new potting soil, water so they drain, place them in a sunny window and wait for them to recharge themselves so that they can be put back outside in May in your northern Penn garden. They'll be as good as new and you can keep doing this for years and years. If you don't have a place to store, then you must keep cuttings from the healthy plant.
I sometimes bring in mine in the pots -- but they can winter indoors if they have enough light -- they'll bloom all winter. But light is very important. I don't have that many sunny windowsills and prefer to just get new plants each spring.
