Re: RE: cannas

Donna-you're not watering them are you? Keep them dry and they should store
over winter just fine.
Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 8:25 AM
Subject: [CHAT] RE: cannas


> Hopefully someone else will respond to this with more experience....
>
> Pam (bless her heart) sent me some in March (?), way to early to plant
> outdoors here in zone 5. I did pot them up and they continued to grow in
> my sunny front window till I could move outdoors. Other folks in this
> area do start them in pots to get ahead start on the season....
>
> I have stored them in the basement (cool, but heated) some years it
> works, others they rotted. Since conditions and pre-storage concepts
> where exactly the same, not sure why.
>
> What I don't know is if they need a dormant period? Jim, Pam do they
> grow all year for you?
>
> Donna
>
> >
> > 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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