I woke-up to the sound of rain, and it kept it up, off and on again, for the whole day. I checked the rain gauge at 5:00 PM and it had 1/2" in it. I just have to keep reminding myself..I would much rather have a soggy March & April and then have it start to dry out in May, rather than the reverse of that like last year.
I spent a good part of today beginning the slow process of unpacking and unwrapping my dahlia tubers. This is the time of year when I need to decide how many of each variety I wish to keep for myself and then I donate the rest to my local Dahlia Society.
Since it has been so cold this month, I ended up pulling my boxes of tubers out of the cold garden storage room and putting them in the heated shop. When I checked on them a week later..Voila! The eyes on almost all of the tubers had "awakened" and begun to sprout. Now I can be sure that I am keeping and donating tubers that have at least one eye that, when the tuber is planted, will push up through the earth and turn into a dahlia plant. You can see from these two pictures that these "Hillcrest Kismet" tubers stored well over the Winter and are ready to go!
Cool, you'll have to teach us how you lift, prepare and store them this fall! They look so tidy all packed up, and clean coming out.
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