Subject: Dahlias
From: Marion Pearcey
Date: 05/10/2003 14:09 GMT Daylight Time
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I am new to this group and wonder if anyone can advise as to how I keep
and store dahlia tubers. Any advice will be welcome,


The way my grandfather did them was to pull them out of the ground after the
frost blackned them. Clean as much soil off as you can, leave the tubers lying
on a bed sheet in the shed (or porch) for a week until the remaining soil was
all dry, shake the dry soil off and shove them in a cardboard box wrapped in
newspaper in the airing cupboard until the next year.

Oh, and then get shouted at by my grandmother for filling her airing cupboard
with boxes.

It seemed to work for him and he always had wonderful dahlias each year.
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