How to Overwinter Geraniums | Preserve Your Plants This Winter Season | Garden Gate Magazine
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Senior Editor of Garden Gate Magazine, Sherri Ribbey, walks you through the simple steps to overwinter your geraniums indoors so you can grow them again next year. Save your plants this winter and you’ll be so glad you did it next spring!
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Last year I grew an enormous Scented Geranium in a 3 gal pot. I wasn't sure how to over-winter it, so I took 20 cuts and put them all in old yogurt containers in soil under a small LED light and left the mother plant in the big pot with a few leaves still attached on the floor. Everything was stored in the garage, it gets about 40° in there during the coldest days of winter. I watered maybe once a month. Fast forward 5 months and I have given away half of the new plants, they all rooted! Now the mother is waking up and growing. I am so glad Spring is here again!
So great! Glad it all worked for you.
Wow, nicely done! I think I'll give that a try this year!
I'm originally from Maine, my grandmother was a wizard with these,she brought them in at the time of her choosing and simply cut them back to the point of nothing green left and set them in a south facing window, over the winter they came back nicely, I'll always remember her for such things, nice show, please keep up the good work !!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I have never had any luck keeping my geraniums this way, so I have resorted to repotting in more manageable containers and keep them growing all winter on my heated deck. Friends are jealous of my indoor garden stocked with over 30 geraniums of all colors. I usually still lose a few but also plant seeds as they show up and end up with more than I loose.
I occasionally will buy new plants in the spring to get a particular color. 2 seasons ago it was orange and my over wintered plant is huge, and I have gotten a few cuttings, so more orange in the garden this year.
Bonus is I have fresh cut geraniums for the table all winter long. Also grow a few tomatoes, and vine fresh in the dead of winter is a treat. Cheers
Sounds like you have worked out a good method! Thanks for watching.
As a Southern girl, I could usually just bring mine in on cold days. I live in AZ now, and winter is geranium season. We have to bring them inside during summer to protect them from the heat!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for showing us how to do it …..❤
You are so welcome!
Going to try this for the first time this winter, as well as growing some from cuttings.
Sounds great! Thanks for watching.
Thanks Sherry!
Thanks for watching!
All I did this winter was put them in a sunny window in my cool basement and water once in awhile. They seem to be doing fine. Haven’t put them outside yet though, so we’ll see what happens.
Sounds good so far!
Good video, thank you for sharing😊
Glad you enjoyed it Thanks for watching and commenting.
that's amazing, can't belive that method reallyworks.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
I haven't bought a new geranium in years. I have a row of them on my deck railing. I love them because bugs leave them alone. I fertilize 3x in summer. Just cut mine back for the winter. Frost predicted here this week.
Thank you! :)
You're welcome!
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she puts them into a paper sack full of leaves and out they come as a small stubby plant without any signs of the dried leaves. Amazing!
I will try this. I've brought in pelargoniums before, in their pots, and while that works well, it also took up a lot of space. It also brought in the creepy crawlies that were in the pots.
Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for watching.
I get creep crawlies too, but I also 'rescue' a few spiders and they manage things. I have a closed in deck attached to the house that is more outside than inside, so over all the few critters are not an issue. I have added several LED grow lights and have quite a garden, that helps keep me cheery over the cold dark winter.
Spring is here already! Now looking at getting them back outside. Cheers
Cant they just be left in pots and cpovered with a bag?
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So nice of you. Thanks for watching.
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whaat?? did not know that before. gonna try that method .
Good luck!
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I usually leave mine in the pots and give them a tiny bit of water once a month. Some people take the stems down quite a bit as well.
Thanks for sharing
That's what I do as well. Have for years. I have Geraniums that are over 10 years old. They bloom throughout the winter as they sit on my windowsills in the basement. I do give them a bit of water when they're needing it. So basically like a houseplant. In mid Spring they go back out in the same pots on the deck.
My grandma just cut them down low and stuck them in the cold room. She’s had for 40 plus years doing it this way. Nothing special. She sticks it under the grow light early spring.
I kept thim inside last winter, so they didn't die, but they didn't flowere very well in the spring and summer, outside, either... Maybe there's some type of food they need for more flowers?@@canadiankabingurl9782
This was so helpful! I’m new to this. Quick question, once they’re potted up 6-8 weeks before the last frost, what’s the watering schedule?
After potting up your geraniums, you should see new growth in 7 to 14 days. The real key to making this work is to water cautiously, only when the soil dries out about an inch down. All the details are on our online article, www.gardengatemagazine.com/articles/how-to/all/how-to-overwinter-geraniums/
@@GardenGateMagazine thank you so much!
Begonia overwinter
The video, as well as several commenters, mentions that you might need to give the 'a bit of water". What is the best way to do that?
We use a spray bottle. Thanks for watching
I follow your tips and clips - they are great. But I have a question: I live in Colorado (4B zone), have a huge high shelf in a heated garage that can house my 40 gorgeous geranium potted plants with mixed annuals and perennials. I have clipped them all back, sprinkled systemic house plant insect control granules on soil near roots and they are ready for winter. There will be blast of cold when we open & close the garage door all winter, there is also light coming in from overhead lighting. Garage stays about 65- during the winter. They sit high so heat rises. Do I need to put paper bags over each pot so they think they’re in dormancy or just let them be and water very little once a month?
With a temp of 65 and light coming in, your geraniums won't go dormant, though by cutting them back and reducing watering, they will slow down a lot. I don't think bagging them would make them think it was winter and go dormant--they'd likely still try to grow and you'd get poor, white, spindly stems. So just cut them back, water once a month or even less if they still feel moist when you check them, and in the spring trim them back so the growth isn't weak and spindly and harden them off before setting outside. Don't worry about a blast of cold air when you open the garage doors--it might chill them a bit but shouldn't freeze them unless you leave it open all day in sub-freezing temps. Thanks for watching.
Very useful, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Hi..when can you take cuttings?also...what if they look dry..should we mist the roots with water?Thank you
Taking cuttings is a bit different but late summer is a good time. You can also take cuttings from overwintered plants in January. Yes, mist any that look desiccated. Thanks for watching
@@GardenGateMagazine great..thank you
Hi. Thx I followed every step you suggested and. Now that it’s spring I’m ready to prepare to plant ... but your video stops short of the replanting steps. It appears that you’ve cut them back to the stem for replanting. Care to share tips on that process?
Thanks for watching! You can find more details on replanting up your overwintered geraniums in the full article on our website: www.gardengatemagazine.com/articles/how-to/all/how-to-overwinter-geraniums/
Cut back anything that looks dried and shriveld, and also any new growth if it looks particularly thin and weak. Those cuttings I put in soil and sometimes you get a new plant.
Then just dip the roots in a weak solution of fertilizer and re-pot. This can just be an in between pot to get them going, then into the ground or larger planters etc, when the weather permits.
. . . .6-8 weeks before my last frost date. Can you please provide me an example? I don't understand when this timing is. Thank you.
If you live in a region that typically has temperatures below freezing, there is an average date of the last frost in spring. Work back 6-8 weeks from that date.
@@GardenGateMagazine Great! Thanks for the perspective!
Will this work on regular seed geraniums?
Yes, it should work fine. Thanks for visiting
How long can u store them in a brown paper bag inside with no water? If I store them from October to May will they will survive like that ?
It’s best to get your geraniums going in a nursery pot inside before they go back out in the garden in spring. A good rule of thumb is to pot them up about a month before you’d normally plant them out but it can be earlier if you’re concerned that your plants are getting too dehydrated over winter (look for stems that were once thick to get shriveled and shrink in diameter).
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Will this work for scented geraniums?
It should work fine. Thanks for watching.
Among the easiest of plants to overwinter. Like all over wintered plants, a little neglect goes a long way, they need little attention, when established in a proper setting.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
at 1.38 in the background watch the rat cross the path
Hah, good eye! Those chipmunks are everywhere in our test garden, we barely notice them anymore :)
@@GardenGateMagazine sorry i called it a rat, we dont have chipmunks native in the uk
room temperature, potted inside a closed cardboard box???
Cooler is better, like an unheated garage.
@@GardenGateMagazine I'm stuck w/ room temperature, I have them potted near a window w/ good results, and an unheated garage is too cold in my area for geraniums.
There not Geraniums they are pelargonium they come from South Africa and do not like the cold weather Geraniums come from England and injoy cold wet weather
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That is not geraniums but pelargonium.