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| During our fair the end of September I was over chatting in the Director of Horticulture building office.
The lady whom I have known for years and worked the fair for over 30years told me she was to disabled to take care of her Red Dahlias. I cheerfully said I would be the new adoptive Mom. Well, she called me last weekend, I went to the house to pick them up. Her husband brought the tractor up with huge boxes of tuber clumps! Enough to completly fill the trunk of my car. Now, I am overwhelmed with the amount of tubers to store! I have semi heated and unheated basements.
The basement of the house that is semi heated from my oil furnace but, doesn't have the space to store 100's of lbs of tubers.
Anyone have a better idea? |
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- Posted by plantlady2008 (My Page) on Sat, Nov 1, 08 at 1:28
| Divide them up - they won't take up nearly as much room & you can get rid of the old, the extras & the ones you don't need. You don't want to plant whole clumps next year anyway so divide now & save yourself the trouble next spring when it's planting time. Look at the answer jroot gave to the question about the big clump so you can see what you need to do. |
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| Why is it you can't plant the whole clump? I have enough space, just had a new area plowed this year that I am going to use for nightshade plants and cutting flowers. |
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- Posted by plantlady2008 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 2, 08 at 18:44
| The reason you divide dahlia clumps each year- or at the least every other year is because the bigger the clump the less vigor the dahlia plant will have. A plant's mission in life is to reproduce & if it has a great big clump of tubers to live off of it won't try as hard to put out blooms. The stems will get weak & floppy & you'll get way less blooms. You are better off with a nice healthy tuber that puts out one nice fat sturdy stem with many laterals than you are with a spindly plant with a lot of stems that are all weak. Also- the size of the tuber doesn't really matter- a small one puts out just as nice a plant as a huge one does. Look at our photo albums- each one of these plants is grown from a single tuber- notice the vigor & the amount of branching from just one bigger-than-a-broomsitck stalk |
Here is a link that might be useful: photos of dahlias
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