I've never tried overwintering geraniums, but I thought about it this year. Your video is timed perfectly. I'm going to give it a try! Thanks for sharing.
I’m with you and don’t want to babysit the plants all winter. I grew huge geraniums from seed this year and I cut off all the vegetation and boxed up bare roots. They will be stored in our new experimental root cellar and hope it works. I’ll just spritz them with water when I check them.
I fallowed everything you showed us last winter and had amazing results ❤thank you so much. This year they were absolutely stunning 😍 Thank you so much for all your videos ❤
You're so very welcome! I'm glad the overwintering process worked well for you. Each year that you overwinter your geranium plants will get you a larger, more robust plant. 😊💕🌻
I’m bringing mine in in a big pot because I have another green stick plant with them.I have put the systemic houseplant insect control.And I sprayed soapy water on the green part of the geraniums.I hope I won’t have a bugs.
Mine stay in their pots during the winter, I just put them in our heated garage and check them once in a while. But this process sounds fun and they will take up less space like this - will definitely give it a try! Thank you 😊
That sounds like a great plan. I'm also overwintering some in pots in my unheated garage which doesn't freeze during the winter. It'll be a good experiment. 😊🌺
Hi, I just saw your video & I'm going to try to store my geraniums upside down in a small paper bag with a rubber band around the top of the roots exposed. I will not babysit for my geraniums this year. I will check my garage & see what the temperature is & will store them at 45 to 55 F-degrees. Thank you.
Hi there. Sounds great. Just be sure to spritz the roots of your geranium about once a month and to check the plants for any rot, etc. Good luck, friend! 😊🌺
I brought mine indoors a couple weeks ago, cut off all the blooms & removed the dry leaves, & now I am watering them like I do a houseplant for the winter. My mom keeps hers indoors all year long.
So glad I found your video. I have done this method for a few years and they are growing beautifully. The only difference is that I put them in two cardboard boxes with the top on and holes on the side of the box for air. I check them once a month like you said. When I take them out around March, I pot them up and keep them in a sunny window. They grow pretty fast. Then they are ready for the garden. Thank you for your video, as I enjoyed seeing you use the paper bags. 🪴 👍
Thank you! Also, thank you for sharing the cardboard method for overwintering the geraniums. It's such a great way to save money, recycle plants, and get a much more robust plant the following year. 😊🌸
I have been doing this every year with my geraniums and they are grand now. Do keep the dry dirt around them, and water once a month, but maybe I should offer more air. I've also begun this with petunias and impatiens with some luck. Can you give any insight about overwintering petunias and impatiens in this less labor intensive way?
Your geraniums sound wonderful! Unfortunately with petunias and impatiens, you really only can overwinter them by bringing them in as a potted houseplant.
Hi .. I go around the neighborhood collecting bags of leaves to run them over with lawnmower then fill my leaf mold bin up. Couple weeks ago someone put 3 bags of geraniums and mums out. I took them, lol I had no Idea what to do with them , until now. Lol I had to subscribe I'm bin watching your videos while I'm cleaning these up right now. I'm in Ontario, Canada. We get the freezing cold. My questions are Since it gets so cold. I can't leave them outside in the shed . I dont have a cool spot in my basement. #1 .. Is it ok if I put them in the box . Leave them in the heated basement? #2, Should I rince them off and spray bug stuff on to kill anything first. After they dry, then box them? I hope you can help Now I'm going back to watching your videos. I'll probably find one that you will be answering my questions 🤞 Cheers from Toronto 🇨🇦
Hello friend. Welcome and thank you so much for subscribing to my channel. I truly appreciate it! I love how you collect all the leaves for leave mold. Also, how awesome is that that you got all those geraniums and mums for free?! I totally would have done the same thing! 😂 I think as long as you put the bare root geraniums in the coolest part of your heated basement, they should be fine. The ideal storage temperature is between 45-55 Fahrenheit / 7-13 Celsius. You do not need to rinse them off or anything. Just remove the dirt, flowers, flower buds, old leaves, and any soft / rotten parts of the plant. I hope this helps. Good luck, friend! 🤞🏼😊🌺
@budgetgardeningvita Thank you for replying back. I gave them a rinse, then hung them up to dry. They are dry now. I put them in a box, roots up. I made room in the little space under the stairs. It feels a tiny bit cooler there, lol 🤞 When you say, spray the roots . These roots look dry already Just from hanging for 2 days. When will I no if I need to give them a little spray of water .? Should I make sure to spray only the roots , not the stems ? I ended up getting 11 Geranium and 6 Mum's . None of the plants had pots. I put the Mum's in leaf bags and in the shed. I didn't know what else to do. I'm excited about this. As for collecting all those bags of leaves. Yard Waste Day is once a week this time of year until December. I went out the night before collection day for 3 weeks. If I noticed some bags out during those weeks, I grabbed them to Especially if I saw someone using a mulcher. Those are Bonus Bags 😆 🤣 😂 I don't have to do it I also took any 🎃 🎃 🎃 I saw. This year, I got 196 bags and 12 🎃 It's my 4th year doing this I'm a pro at packing my van now. I had to unload and go back out a few times . After the lawnmower goes over them, tho, I shred 3-4 bags that fills 1 bag back up. I did get my leaf mold bin filled up and added pumpkins 🎃 for worms ect ect to eat. Miniature Roses & Strawberry Plants and all garden covered. I have 8 Rubbermaid bins that are full of Red Wiggler Worms . The bins are in my dining room. No, we don't eat there with them 😅 😂 🤣 They LOVE pumpkins and shredded leaves. I love spoiling my hard-working worms 🪱 Cheers from Toronto 🇨🇦
I’ve seen so many different ways to do this. Some cut off leaves, some don’t. They put in boxes with and without holes and use paper bags. Some put in basement, some say no light. Roots up? Not sure for reason there. I cut my vegetation off because they could mold as they were huge and put roots up in a box and in root cellar. We will see. I just don’t want to babysit them inside all winter and like you hoping this is easier then starting from seed. I think I will research what the bare root really requires to stay dormant. As they are somewhat frost hardy and bugs don’t bother them. I actually seen dead bugs on them this summer. When I grew these from seed they were not bothered by gnats or the aphids which I never had before growing seedlings and next year everything is growing in the greenhouse as there was no way to get rid of fungus gnats as I tried everything.
You are correct in that there are definitely a few different ways to overwinter your geraniums. Experiment around with it and see which method works best for you. I wish I could overwinter more plants this way as the process is so easy! ♥🌸
Hi there! For tuberous begonias, you can easily overwinter the tuber. Here's a link to the video that I made showing the process: ruclips.net/video/Onte4F74UVw/видео.html. 😊🌺
Do they require light if kept in the pot, or you think it would work to bring the whole pot into a garage/shop to overwinter with no light without digging them up? Thanks!
Hi there. I've only ever overwintered my geraniums bare root and I have stored them in the basement where it stays above freezing. If you decide to keep them as potted plants, just be sure that they are in a room that stays 60-65 F or so and where they get some light (sun or artificial). They should also be watered very little (maybe once every two weeks). 😊🌸
This is fantastic. Im so nervous but excited to try this because this is my 1st year buying geraniums and I was going to be sad to see them die off. But I dont have a basement or a place in the house to keep the bag. Our furnace is in the garage so would the plant be ok if I put it near the furnace where theres some radiant heat or would it be too cold? Im Z6b SE MI
Hi there! Is there any way that you could bring your geranium in and treat it as a houseplant? It would need to be near a sunny window. If you choose to do that, just give it water every 2 weeks and be sure to rid it of any pests by dousing it with soapy water. In the garage, how warm would you say it stays during the winter?
@@budgetgardeningvitaunfortunately I have nowhere in the house to put them. The garage gets pretty cold but was hoping if I put it close enough to the furnace I could keep it above freezing. Guess I'll just give it a go and hope for the best, lol.
@@lisalisa0004 It's worth a try. I'd love to know how it turns out. Just make sure you don't over water it, otherwise it will rot. Good luck friend. ☺️💗
I'm in zone 7b and our furnace is in the garage. It is on the south side of the house and doesn't go below 40 degrees. My geraniums are in pots, so I just bring the pots in and store them on a table, but I only water a couple times all winter. Then, once they start showing signs of new growth, I might water every 3 weeks or so. It you have a couple die off, you can cut shoots from established plants and start new ones by rooting those. Good luck.
I have never tried to overwinter marigolds, but I leave my mums in the ground all winter. I live in zone 7b (boise idaho area) and they have been in the same spots for 9 years. There are annual mums and there are perennial mums, and I think that is why ours have survived. We cut them off in late fall, about 1 to 2 inches from the ground. Just to tell you, we have the weed barrier cloth down with river rock on top of that. I don't know if that makes a difference. Good luck!
For mums, I have overwintered them in the garage just fine. My garage does not freeze (it gets down to 40 Fahrenheit during the coldest part of winter). The key is to not give too much water to the mums or they will rot. Then in Spring I plant the out in the landscape. If I do want to plant them out in the ground in the Fall, I need to plant them as soon as I see mums in the garden centers since the roots of mums take a long time to establish. I have never overwintered marigolds since it's very easy to collect their seeds and start marigolds from seed each year. 😊🌻
I've never tried overwintering geraniums, but I thought about it this year. Your video is timed perfectly. I'm going to give it a try! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome! It's definitely worth a shot. I was thrilled at how easy the process was and with how healthy and big my geraniums were this year. 🌸
I’m with you and don’t want to babysit the plants all winter. I grew huge geraniums from seed this year and I cut off all the vegetation and boxed up bare roots. They will be stored in our new experimental root cellar and hope it works. I’ll just spritz them with water when I check them.
That sounds like a great plan!
Just brought in my geraniums! Thanks for sharing. I am excited to see the process in the spring.😊
That's great, Lisa! I can't wait to hear an update in the spring. Are they bare root or are they potted up? 🌺
I store mine bare root in a cardboard box upside down (roots up). Thanks for sharing as always.
How wonderful! How many geraniums will you be storing this year? 🌸
I have 20 to store in my basement. It’s too cold in my garage as well, as I am in S/W Ohio.
I fallowed everything you showed us last winter and had amazing results ❤thank you so much. This year they were absolutely stunning 😍 Thank you so much for all your videos ❤
You're so very welcome! I'm glad the overwintering process worked well for you. Each year that you overwinter your geranium plants will get you a larger, more robust plant. 😊💕🌻
I’m bringing mine in in a big pot because I have another green stick plant with them.I have put the systemic houseplant insect control.And I sprayed soapy water on the green part of the geraniums.I hope I won’t have a bugs.
Fingers crossed that you don't have bugs. It's worth a try, though. ♥🤞🏼
Mine stay in their pots during the winter, I just put them in our heated garage and check them once in a while. But this process sounds fun and they will take up less space like this - will definitely give it a try! Thank you 😊
It's definitely worth the experiment. It's amazing how big the geranium plants get each year that you overwinter them. 🌷♥
Love your videos ❤
Awww. Thanks so much! 🥰💐
glad i found ur idea
will try and see but i am also leaving some in the pot for indoor
That sounds like a great plan. I'm also overwintering some in pots in my unheated garage which doesn't freeze during the winter. It'll be a good experiment. 😊🌺
Hi, I just saw your video & I'm going to try to store my geraniums upside down in a small paper bag with a rubber band around the top of the roots exposed. I will not babysit for my geraniums this year. I will check my garage & see what the temperature is & will store them at 45 to 55 F-degrees. Thank you.
Hi there. Sounds great. Just be sure to spritz the roots of your geranium about once a month and to check the plants for any rot, etc. Good luck, friend! 😊🌺
I brought mine indoors a couple weeks ago, cut off all the blooms & removed the dry leaves, & now I am watering them like I do a houseplant for the winter.
My mom keeps hers indoors all year long.
Very nice! I'm sure your mom's geranium must be huge by now! 🌹
So glad I found your video. I have done this method for a few years and they are growing beautifully. The only difference is that I put them in two cardboard boxes with the top on and holes on the side of the box for air. I check them once a month like you said. When I take them out around March, I pot them up and keep them in a sunny window. They grow pretty fast. Then they are ready for the garden. Thank you for your video, as I enjoyed seeing you use the paper bags. 🪴 👍
Thank you! Also, thank you for sharing the cardboard method for overwintering the geraniums. It's such a great way to save money, recycle plants, and get a much more robust plant the following year. 😊🌸
I have been doing this every year with my geraniums and they are grand now. Do keep the dry dirt around them, and water once a month, but maybe I should offer more air. I've also begun this with petunias and impatiens with some luck. Can you give any insight about overwintering petunias and impatiens in this less labor intensive way?
Your geraniums sound wonderful! Unfortunately with petunias and impatiens, you really only can overwinter them by bringing them in as a potted houseplant.
Hi ..
I go around the neighborhood collecting bags of leaves to run them over with lawnmower then fill my leaf mold bin up.
Couple weeks ago someone put 3 bags of geraniums and mums out.
I took them, lol
I had no Idea what to do with them , until now. Lol
I had to subscribe
I'm bin watching your videos while I'm cleaning these up
right now.
I'm in Ontario, Canada. We get the freezing cold.
My questions are
Since it gets so cold.
I can't leave them outside in the shed .
I dont have a cool spot in my basement.
#1 .. Is it ok if I put them in the box . Leave them in the heated basement?
#2, Should I rince them off and spray bug stuff on to kill anything first.
After they dry, then box them?
I hope you can help
Now I'm going back to watching your videos. I'll probably find one that you will be answering my questions 🤞
Cheers from Toronto 🇨🇦
Hello friend. Welcome and thank you so much for subscribing to my channel. I truly appreciate it!
I love how you collect all the leaves for leave mold. Also, how awesome is that that you got all those geraniums and mums for free?! I totally would have done the same thing! 😂
I think as long as you put the bare root geraniums in the coolest part of your heated basement, they should be fine. The ideal storage temperature is between 45-55 Fahrenheit / 7-13 Celsius. You do not need to rinse them off or anything. Just remove the dirt, flowers, flower buds, old leaves, and any soft / rotten parts of the plant.
I hope this helps. Good luck, friend! 🤞🏼😊🌺
@budgetgardeningvita Thank you for replying back.
I gave them a rinse, then hung them up to dry.
They are dry now.
I put them in a box, roots up.
I made room in the little space under the stairs.
It feels a tiny bit cooler there, lol
🤞
When you say, spray the roots .
These roots look dry already
Just from hanging for 2 days.
When will I no if I need to give them a little spray of water .?
Should I make sure to spray only the roots , not the stems ?
I ended up getting 11 Geranium and 6 Mum's .
None of the plants had pots.
I put the Mum's in leaf bags and in the shed.
I didn't know what else to do.
I'm excited about this.
As for collecting all those bags of leaves.
Yard Waste Day is once a week this time of year until December.
I went out the night before collection day for 3 weeks.
If I noticed some bags out during those weeks, I grabbed them to
Especially if I saw someone using a mulcher. Those are Bonus Bags 😆 🤣 😂 I don't have to do it
I also took any 🎃 🎃 🎃 I saw.
This year, I got 196 bags and 12 🎃
It's my 4th year doing this
I'm a pro at packing my van now.
I had to unload and go back out a few times .
After the lawnmower goes over them, tho, I shred 3-4 bags that fills 1 bag back up.
I did get my leaf mold bin filled up and added pumpkins 🎃 for worms ect ect to eat.
Miniature Roses & Strawberry Plants and all garden covered.
I have 8 Rubbermaid bins that are full of Red Wiggler Worms .
The bins are in my dining room. No, we don't eat there with them 😅 😂 🤣
They LOVE pumpkins and shredded leaves.
I love spoiling my hard-working worms 🪱
Cheers from Toronto 🇨🇦
I’ve seen so many different ways to do this. Some cut off leaves, some don’t. They put in boxes with and without holes and use paper bags. Some put in basement, some say no light. Roots up? Not sure for reason there.
I cut my vegetation off because they could mold as they were huge and put roots up in a box and in root cellar. We will see. I just don’t want to babysit them inside all winter and like you hoping this is easier then starting from seed.
I think I will research what the bare root really requires to stay dormant. As they are somewhat frost hardy and bugs don’t bother them. I actually seen dead bugs on them this summer. When I grew these from seed they were not bothered by gnats or the aphids which I never had before growing seedlings and next year everything is growing in the greenhouse as there was no way to get rid of fungus gnats as I tried everything.
You are correct in that there are definitely a few different ways to overwinter your geraniums. Experiment around with it and see which method works best for you. I wish I could overwinter more plants this way as the process is so easy! ♥🌸
Can I do the same process for my BEGONIAS? Thank you.
Hi there! For tuberous begonias, you can easily overwinter the tuber. Here's a link to the video that I made showing the process: ruclips.net/video/Onte4F74UVw/видео.html. 😊🌺
Do they require light if kept in the pot, or you think it would work to bring the whole pot into a garage/shop to overwinter with no light without digging them up? Thanks!
Hi there. I've only ever overwintered my geraniums bare root and I have stored them in the basement where it stays above freezing. If you decide to keep them as potted plants, just be sure that they are in a room that stays 60-65 F or so and where they get some light (sun or artificial). They should also be watered very little (maybe once every two weeks). 😊🌸
This is fantastic. Im so nervous but excited to try this because this is my 1st year buying geraniums and I was going to be sad to see them die off. But I dont have a basement or a place in the house to keep the bag. Our furnace is in the garage so would the plant be ok if I put it near the furnace where theres some radiant heat or would it be too cold? Im Z6b SE MI
Hi there! Is there any way that you could bring your geranium in and treat it as a houseplant? It would need to be near a sunny window. If you choose to do that, just give it water every 2 weeks and be sure to rid it of any pests by dousing it with soapy water. In the garage, how warm would you say it stays during the winter?
@@budgetgardeningvitaunfortunately I have nowhere in the house to put them. The garage gets pretty cold but was hoping if I put it close enough to the furnace I could keep it above freezing. Guess I'll just give it a go and hope for the best, lol.
@@lisalisa0004 It's worth a try. I'd love to know how it turns out. Just make sure you don't over water it, otherwise it will rot. Good luck friend. ☺️💗
I'm in zone 7b and our furnace is in the garage. It is on the south side of the house and doesn't go below 40 degrees. My geraniums are in pots, so I just bring the pots in and store them on a table, but I only water a couple times all winter. Then, once they start showing signs of new growth, I might water every 3 weeks or so. It you have a couple die off, you can cut shoots from established plants and start new ones by rooting those. Good luck.
Wonderful initiation for me with overwintering. I am trying this with my mums and marigold in Iowa this time. Anybody with some experience in those?
I have never tried to overwinter marigolds, but I leave my mums in the ground all winter. I live in zone 7b (boise idaho area) and they have been in the same spots for 9 years. There are annual mums and there are perennial mums, and I think that is why ours have survived. We cut them off in late fall, about 1 to 2 inches from the ground. Just to tell you, we have the weed barrier cloth down with river rock on top of that. I don't know if that makes a difference. Good luck!
For mums, I have overwintered them in the garage just fine. My garage does not freeze (it gets down to 40 Fahrenheit during the coldest part of winter). The key is to not give too much water to the mums or they will rot. Then in Spring I plant the out in the landscape.
If I do want to plant them out in the ground in the Fall, I need to plant them as soon as I see mums in the garden centers since the roots of mums take a long time to establish.
I have never overwintered marigolds since it's very easy to collect their seeds and start marigolds from seed each year. 😊🌻
Did your geraniums survive?
Hi there. They sure did. 😊 The sad thing is I never got them potted up into beautiful pots though. That's ok. Next year. ❤️💐