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JEhi there, have planted some dahlia bulbs this year and they have
JEsprouted and
JEcome up and ive been told i need to lift them for the
JEwinter but i dont really
JEwant to if i dont what are the repercussions
JEof this? and if i have to what is
JEthe best way of over-wintering them

Here in eastern New England, after our first froast (last wendesday 8-(
that drives the sap down into the tuber; on the first sunny day there
after we dig the tubers up, wash them off (to eliminate any worms, bugs,
etc.) with saved clean rain water and after they have dried out in the
sun we cut off the stalks and "put them down for the winter" (Damn
Yankee slang for put the tubers in damp sphangum peat moss in tubs in
the coolest spot in our basement 8-)

Did mine last friday and then ground up fallen leaves for the compost
before the rains came again.

Ciao, OldAck

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