On Sep 18, 10:31*am, Frank wrote:
On 9/18/2010 12:22 PM, hr(bob) wrote:

We live in the Chicago suburbs. *Last winter I put all our hanging
baskets of geraniums in a barely warm garage, anywhere from 35 degrees
up to 55 degrees. *They survived and have bloomed vigorously all this
summer hanging along the sides of our deck. *But, the plants have
become leggy and I need to do something with them. *Never had
geraniums before so my wife and I don't know what we should be doing
for this upcoming winter.

Help please.

I'm no expert but wife has been putting a couple to winter in our
utility room and I looked on-line and believe you can cut back one to
two thirds. *I did this early in the year and rooted several cuttings
and got several new plants.

Endorse*that vigorous pruning.

If there is no natural light coming into the utility room, you need to
hang up grow-lights, or at least fluorescents. Can't you hang them
in the house itself near a window?

Put some in pots and some in the ground and just plan to leave them
out to die, whatever, and clone new ones *in February from what she
brings in.

Unless there is a whole army of geraniums, I see no need to leave them
out to freeze.