Wintering Geraniums in Box/Bag - Have you tried this yet?
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 11:03 am
Geraniums:
I like geraniums in my garden:
Pros: Slugs and snails don't like them and they're colourful and easy to take cuttings and grow more plants.
Cons: Over-wintering geraniums in pots - they are in take a lot of room.
My Mom told me that her friends puts her's in a paper bag and sprays once in a while and that's it.
I thought mine would surely die.
A few years ago - I dug up the extra geraniums - shook most of the soil and put them in a cardboard box - like a mother hen - I checked on them every couple of months. Oh no "I kill them" but I knew I had backups just incase I killed my experiments - I sprayed the inside of the box anyway and put the box away.
By March - they look pretty dead. Leaves were all brown some of the stems were soft but for the most part - the stems were firm and I wanted to see to the end of my experiment.
So I took them out of the box, removed dead leaves and soft stems and planted them.
In no time the stems started to root and within a month they looked healthier than the ones I left in the pots during.
The pros of keeping some of the geraniums in pots - I was able to take cuttings from the potted geraniums and grow more plants during the winter.
Have tried wintering anything geraniums using this method?
Can you share your experience?
Are you going to try it?
I like geraniums in my garden:
Pros: Slugs and snails don't like them and they're colourful and easy to take cuttings and grow more plants.
Cons: Over-wintering geraniums in pots - they are in take a lot of room.
My Mom told me that her friends puts her's in a paper bag and sprays once in a while and that's it.
I thought mine would surely die.
A few years ago - I dug up the extra geraniums - shook most of the soil and put them in a cardboard box - like a mother hen - I checked on them every couple of months. Oh no "I kill them" but I knew I had backups just incase I killed my experiments - I sprayed the inside of the box anyway and put the box away.
By March - they look pretty dead. Leaves were all brown some of the stems were soft but for the most part - the stems were firm and I wanted to see to the end of my experiment.
So I took them out of the box, removed dead leaves and soft stems and planted them.
In no time the stems started to root and within a month they looked healthier than the ones I left in the pots during.
The pros of keeping some of the geraniums in pots - I was able to take cuttings from the potted geraniums and grow more plants during the winter.
Have tried wintering anything geraniums using this method?
Can you share your experience?
Are you going to try it?
