How to store calla in the winter?

Some ornamental plants need careful preparation for winter and competent care until the next landing. To a greater extent, this applies to tuberous and bulbous. Many gardeners grow on their sites callas . These plants effectively look and decorate any flowerbed. Consider the rules for storing tubers of callas and the stages of their preparation for wintering.

How to store calla bulbs in winter?

So that the planting material is preserved until the next season, the first thing is to properly excavate and prepare the tubers. Here is one of the options, how to properly store the calla in the winter:

It is important to carefully check the tubers of garden calla before storing for rot. If black spots are already formed, they will have to be scraped off with a teaspoon or a similar tool. Leave the workpiece to dry for a couple of hours and process the place with green or crushed charcoal activated.

Similarly, the tuber is treated, when it is necessary to separate the children from the mother tuber. The baby is broken off, not cut off. Then place the fault with grease and wrap the planting material in paper napkins. It is necessary to get bulbs from time to time and check them for rot. Fortunately, with proper preparation and handling of such problems should not arise.

Then we put all this in a cardboard box with a lid and send it to a dry cool place. You can store calla as much as you need for a complete rest of the tubers. As a rule, the period lasts from the end of September until the spring. Approximately in the first decade of April, a box of planting material is taken out and gradually begin to awaken bulbs.

How to store calla in the winter: tips for beginners

We have considered only one of the options for storing calla tuba, since every summer resident has its own secrets and rules for caring for plants. If you are just starting to get acquainted with gardening, you will find useful the following several tips from the "experienced".

  1. Before storing calla bulbs in winter, they should be properly excavated. Never exert effort and do not make sudden movements. Tubers break down very easily.
  2. If you noticed children on the mother bulb that are not yet ripe, do not touch and leave it as it is. After a while they themselves will be covered with a film and you can easily tear them away.
  3. It is important to keep the callas in winter without roots, because in time they will again move into growth. Be sure to trim the roots carefully when all the foliage wilts.
  4. The rest period should last at least two months. Then the plant will please you with abundant flowering again.
  5. The place where you can store calla in the winter, should be cool and dry. The temperature is about +3 ... + 7 ° С. Excellent fit refrigerator or cellar (but only dry!).
  6. If we grow flowers in the summer in pots, then with the onset of autumn, we completely stop watering. The leaves will begin to dry and very soon you will be able to prepare the tubers for rest. Wintering is allowed right in the pot on the cool veranda or balcony. You can remove the planting material and send it to a cardboard box in the refrigerator.

Other plants, such as gladioli and dahlias, also require storage.