How to Store Geraniums Over the Winter

The Geranium is a beautiful plant that is hardy and does well during the warm summer months. Geraniums make lovely flowers that bloom for a long time. But the geranium plant does not like to freeze. So during the winter months if you live in a cold climate you need to store your geraniums or they will die. It is a pretty easy procedure to store your geraniums but you do need to have some space you can donate to them and a couple of paper bags.

Storing geraniums is best in a cool place like a root cellar or basement. It should also be dry so because if it is wet the geraniums will mold and rot. If the geraniums get moldy they will not produce and they may even spread disease to other plants.

To store geraniums first take them out of there pots or remove them from the garden bed where they have been all summer. Be careful when you handle them so you don't damage them but gently shake them to remove all the soil that you reasonable can.

The take the geranium plant and place it into its own paper bag. Just put one geranium into one bag so the plants have their own bag for the winter.

Take another paper bag and place that bag upside down over the first paper bag that has the geranium in it. You should now have a geranium in a paper bag with another paper bag over the top so the plant is completely enclosed in paper bags.

Then place the geranium in a cool dry place for the winter.

When spring arrives and it is time to plant outside you can transplant the geranium outside. Gently take the geranium out of its winter bags and cut off all of the plant but one inch of the stem. Then you can put the geranium in a pot of its own or you can plant the geranium into a garden spot.

Geraniums like sunny locations and they like to be watered regularly. It is always fun to plant a plant and watch it spring back to life and when you plant a geranium in the spring it is always fun to watch it spring back to life.

When you store a geranium during the winter it can last for years to come. If you take proper care of your geraniums in the winter you can have lovely flowers during the summer.