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Roger Tonkin[_2_] · 13-11-2013, 02:47 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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"Roger Tonkin" wrote in message
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Last nights frost finnished off my dahlias, turning
the leaves brownish black.

Next task is digging them up, drying and cleaning them
for storeage.

How do folks dry/clean them?

I've done different things:

1) Washed them striaght away under a tap/hose to
remove all the mud/stone etc, then left them upside
down in the garage to dry.

2) Just put them in the garage upside down as they
come, leave them to dry, mud and all, then eventually
shake/dig out all the dry mud.

3) Dig/scrape out all the wet mud that I can straight
away, before leaveing and treating like option 2.
Problem with this is that it is easy to damage the
skin on the tubers as it is still tender.

What do other people do, from my point of view the
easier the better!

We don't dry ours, we pot them and put them in the (unheated) greenhouse
over winter. Mind you, we live in the mild south.

Steve

I've got about 15, and they are all big and getting
bigger, despite dividing them! They would need at
least an 18inch pot, probably bigger, and I've only
got a small greenhouse. They would not fit, and I'm
sure they would freeze in the winter. Minus 5 at the
coldest point of last winter in there!

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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

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