Dig up onions in autumn
Before the first frost, you should dig up non-hardy calla. To do this, use a Digging fork. With a spade cut off too many roots or damage the tuber.
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Poke the fork into the ground a few inches away from the onion and carefully lift the tuber.
Cut off any remaining leaves. Then remove the adhering earth and leave the calla to dry for some time. Only when the Onions are well dry, they are allowed to winter quarters.
This is how the calla bulbs are properly overwintered
- Cool room up to ten degrees
- Dry and dark
- Don't put them too close together
It is best to overwinter the dry, clean onions for two to three months in a dry, dark room. It shouldn't get warmer than a maximum of 15 degrees there. Basement rooms, garages or garden houses are well suited. The humidity shouldn't be too high.
Store the onions so that there is still some space between the individual tubers. By circulating air, you prevent the tubers from going moldy or rotten. It is helpful if you put some wood wool or dry peat around the onions.
Put non-hardy calla bulbs in spring
When the temperatures in spring have warmed up to over ten degrees and there is no longer any need to fear night frosts, the calla is allowed to go outside again.
If you prefer the tubers in the pot as early as March, shorten the time to the first blossom considerable in the flowerbed.
Don't forget your gloves
the Calla is slightly poisonous. Work at the Care of the calla basically with gloves.
Tips & Tricks
Calla bulbs that are not winter-proof are easier to dig up in autumn if you plant them in a pot in spring and put them in the flower bed together with the pot plants. You then only have to pull the pot out of the ground to bring the tubers to their winter quarters.
