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I know this is brought up a lot - Lifting out Cannas and Overwintering them. I live in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area and planted cannas for the first time last year. I avidly read how to store them in my basement. So I dug them up, rinsed off the dirt, let them sit and dry out a bit in my garage (a couple of days) and began storing them away for their long winter's nap. I got 'holey' plastic bags and put the cannas in there and packed them with sphagnum moss. But maybe I should of intervened at some point because when I got them out of storage, in the spring, I lost a large amount of the rhizomes because they either were very dried out or they had turned black. I cut off the black portion of the root and there must have been some viable rhizome left because the canna still grew from it
I have a pile of rhizomes currently drying out on a tarp, full of dirt and waiting for storage. Any additional tricks that will save my canna rhizome crop this year?
P.S. My dad thinks I am being over-motherly to them because he would dig them up, throw them in a bucket and put the bucket in the basement.
Thanks for any info. Gail
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