Aroid tuber storage.. (fwd)

From: Don Burns <burns at mobot.org> on 1998.10.06 at 03:31:40(2657) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:20:45 -0500 To: aroid-owner@mobot.org +More Subject: Aroid tuber storage.. This message was submitted by "Kahuna Sage(Mike Bernardoni)" to list aroid-l@mobot.org. If you forward it back to= the list, it will be distributed without the paragraphs above the dashed line. = You may edit the Subject: line and the text of the message before forwarding it back. If you edit the messages you receive into a digest, you will need to remove these paragraphs and the dashed line before mailing the result to the list. Finally, if you need more information from the author of this message, you should be able to do so by simply replying to this note. ----------------------- Message requiring your approval -------------------= --- Sender: "Kahuna Sage(Mike Bernardoni)" Subject: Aroid tuber storage.. Hi...We are slowly aproaching our first frost the end of this month in Zone 6...I have a number of aroids in the ground which have done great this year= (my first year growing aroids)..What are the recomendations on preparing them f= or winter storage?? Should I dig now and pot up?? Any help wil be apreciated!! Thanks!! Mike Bernardoni KAHUNA SAGE ZONE 6 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS “Tropics of Drygulch” http://members.tripod.com/~TROPICMAN/index-3.html Suite101 Image Award Wabash Valley Watergarden Society Member Internet Pond Society Member Herrin Illinois Gardeners Club Member

From: Don Burns <burns at mobot.org> on 1998.10.07 at 19:10:10(2663) Tom Croat send the message below to me rather than the list so I am forwarding it for him. Don +More Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:56:30 CST6CDT Subject: Re: Aroid tuber storage.. (fwd) Mike: I leave most of my aroids in the ground until after the first heavy freeze just to be able to enjoy them longer and since they provide much of my landscape. Exceptions are anything that has gone dormant already such as many of my Sauromatum. I dig those up in order not to lose track of where they are. Amorphophallus I store in cardboard boxes or paper bags in my unheated garage under the house. Caladium suffer there so I store them in paper bags in a heated part of the house. I just dig them up leaves and all and put them into a bag. They overwintered very nicely. I think I will just leave most of my Pinellia out to overwinter and Arum, of course will stay out. Tom > Hi...We are slowly aproaching our first frost the end of this month in > Zone > 6...I have a number of aroids in the ground which have done great this > year= (my > first year growing aroids)..What are the recomendations on preparing > them >f= or > winter storage?? Should I dig now and pot up?? Any help wil be > apreciated!! Thanks!! > > Mike Bernardoni

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