Northeast Gardening: Preparing Potted Plants to Come Indoors, 1 by

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1. Make sure it is on newspaper. Let it dry a day or two and bring it back out and get the roots and dirt you can. Try not to remove pups, they stay fine they dont fine.
2. Dont bruise it, be nice. Before you store it get the dirt off. It will have to dry 1 week.
3. Any rotton spots cut them off.

I am done telling you what to do as that is where I am at. This is my 1st year with EE'S. The size of the bulb is not baseball size no more. like 1/2 a football and PUPS! The 6" I left will be hard to dry and pull off. It is much easier to handle. Hope this helps and by no means am I a expert.