I am not sure if your garage will give enough winter protection for you geraniums Peter.
What I should have advised was that you cut the tops of and use them as cuttings just in case, you can still do this if you use warm seed compost, water in with warm water then keep almost dry on the kitchen windowsill.
Hope its not to late!!
If all else fails, keep the labels so you know which ones you liked best and re purchase next spring, or let me know and I will post one off to you.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Geoff is correct, I lift them strip them dust them and cram them in pots in the garage, it has never been below zero in there and never lost more than the odd one out of boxes of them. Too late for cuttings now, as soon as you wake them up late February/march then take cuttings and keep on doing it. Plants are much tougher than we think.
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I am not sure if your garage will give enough winter protection for you geraniums Peter.
What I should have advised was that you cut the tops of and use them as cuttings just in case, you can still do this if you use warm seed compost, water in with warm water then keep almost dry on the kitchen windowsill.
Hope its not to late!!
If all else fails, keep the labels so you know which ones you liked best and re purchase next spring, or let me know and I will post one off to you.
Geoff is correct, I lift them strip them dust them and cram them in pots in the garage, it has never been below zero in there and never lost more than the odd one out of boxes of them. Too late for cuttings now, as soon as you wake them up late February/march then take cuttings and keep on doing it.
Plants are much tougher than we think.
Frank.
Well! I have done it, took all the leaves and last flowers off all my geraniums, and may I say, what a job it turned out to be.
I have left them in a well lit cold greenhouse, but made little tents out of old heavy newspapers and draped these over my baldy plants....
It shouldn't be a problem for me to keep taking a peep at them to check if anything is going wrong.
Being an obvious unconventional garden, my cuttings that I took last week are romping away,