Re: Re:[ chat] cannas

Will send you more this Spring too - LOL

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: EvaTEsq@aol.com
Sent: 9/12/2004 7:55:05 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: [CHAT] Re:[ chat] cannas

> The dear sweet Pam also sent me some cannas.  One year I stored them in my 
> mother-in-law's basement, which I think is somewhat heated being that the 
> furnace is located down there.  Most of the cannas made it.  The following year my 
> MIL had no room for them in the basement so I stored them in my unheated, but 
> well sealed shed.  None of the cannas made it -- they were all mush.  Each year 
> I stored them the sam way: in rubbermaid containers filled with peat moss.
> 
> This year I'm going to have to grab some space in my MIL's basement. (I have 
> no basement and no garage.)
> 
> Eva
> Long Island, NY
> Zone 6/7
> 
> In a message dated 9/12/2004 7:36:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> Chris@widom-assoc.com writes:
> Another question- I have just received some large canna roots from a person
> that can leave them in the ground year round.  Since my climate is too cold
> for that, what is the best way to store them?  I can put them in the
> basement of my husband's office next door.  It is extremely damp in the
> basement (there is an exposed sump pump system for flooding), and I'm not
> sure how cold it is down there.  The furnace is in the basement, but I don't
> believe that the basement is heated.  The house is heated by hot air, so
> there is duct work that might keep part of the basement cooler.  There's a
> garage next door that's not heated. There's an attic next door which is
> insulated, but unheated. Can the canna be planted and grown in front of a
> sunny patio door  for the winter?
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Chris
> Long Island, NY
> Zone 7a (Average min temp 50 - 00)
> 
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