"Rhiannon S" wrote in message
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: Subject: Dahlias
: From: Marion Pearcey
: Date: 05/10/2003 14:09 GMT Daylight Time
: Message-id:
:
: 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.

Can someone tell me why it has to be after the first frost? What does the
frost do, and what is the advantage? I've often wondered.

K


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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