How to store callas?

Callas, like other tuber plants, areperennial, bulbs which are more correct to excavate and store in an appropriate place during the rest period. To your flowers every year you pleased with their flowers, keeping callas should be right. This is in today's material.

To keep tubers of calla whole andintact, we propose to go through all the stages of their proper storage. On the stages of preservation of tulips and lilies in winter, read in the material How to store tulips and How to store lilies.

How to store callas in winter

1. Dug at the end of September tubers calla from the front garden with the seizure of the earth so as not to damage the root system.
2. Brush the tubers off the ground. In no case do not knock down the roots, they will soon fall off themselves.
3. When the tubers are in a dry place (box) of the weektwo or three, you need to clean them from the leaves and dead roots. If an adult tuber has small children, it is not necessary to tear them apart, let them winter together. Disconnect can be 2-3-year-old babies tuber. If you detach too young children from an adult tuber, bloom the flower will be bad and with a small number of buds.
4. After it is necessary to tarnish the tubers with ash or activated charcoal. It is also not bad in the places of separation of the tuber from the children to grease the areas with greenery.
5. Now wrap each tuber in a napkin and put in a box, box or paper bag.
6. Keep tubers of callas in a dry, dark place, for example in a cellar or in a refrigerator drawer.

On the correct storage of roses in the winter, read the article How to store roses.