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Old 23-10-2009, 06:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Begonia Winter care?

On Oct 23, 9:02*am, David in Normandy
wrote:
Bob Hobden wrote:
I still have some of my mothers and she died in 1993. I just put them in the
greenhouse, stop watering completely and after all the growth has died,
clean up the soil surface and put the pot on it's side under the staging for
the winter. In the spring you will see tiny green buds on the surface of the
corm at which point you repot into fresh compost and spray lightly with
water. Over the next few weeks increase watering slowly at which point the
plants should be in full growth.
If you want to increase your plant, when the corm is big enough, you can cut
it into half or even pieces if you don't mind a lot of smaller plants.


Thanks Bob. It sounds like I've got to bring it in now then before the
frosts get it.
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Did the gales catch you out David or did they miss you? We have a
tree man coming to sort out a big Theole with a few broken branches.

Judith