Northeast Gardening: Preparing Potted Plants to Come Indoors, 0 by helenethequeen

helenethequeen wrote:
With coleus i like to make new cuttings, early in September here in Zone 5, then put them in an appropriate size pot and pot up just once, or put a few smaller plants in one large pot.and will overwinter better than the large old plants. They do change color, but having smaller plants you are assured of at least one surviving.Going outdoors, the color comes right back with more/stronger sunshine. I do this with all my different begonias as well. I don't have a lot of sun in the house and having smaller plants works for me.

Only a small piece of this begonia is coming in - actually I am taking them to Fl. + some other cutting and they will continue in my containers there. In spring a reverse the procedure.

i like Palm Olive dish detergent, diluted as said above, to spray outdoors and a weaker solution handy for indoors. For soil in the pots I use diluted "Seven". Helene