I got the following out of a book I have.
"If your windowsills are full to bursting with geraniums from your summer garden, some of them can spend the winter in the cellar. Simply lift the geraniums from their soil and hang them upside down. Replant them outside in the spring."
Has anyone heard of this method? I'll have to wait until next year to try it. I only brought cuttings in this year.
(This tip is from Ben Franklin's Almanac of Wit, Wisdom, and Practical Advice. Useful Tips and Fascinating Facts for Every Day of the Year. By the editors of The Old Farmer's Almanac, Yankee Books.)
Geraniums - Winter Care
I never have, and I forgot to take cuttings - doh! Try some hardy ones too - I love them.
My Grampa and Mom have done it that way, just hang em upside down in a basement (cool,darkish), they survive really well.
How do they not dry out?? You don't even have to mist the roots or anything?
They don't dry out, this isn't a heated basement we are talking about remember, cool and dark. It's the same principle as storing dahlia tubers. When they start to sprout in the spring, March or so, pot em up.
Yeah but a tuber is different from a live plant, with stems and leaves intact.
true, but it works, nonetheless. Don't ask me how, but it does.