[Babstreefern]

I know someone can answer this - I've just dug up my dahlias which I grew from seed and now want to pack the tubers away for the winter, what is the stuff that I need to dust them with

[Comfortably Numb]

Always used to use flowers of sulphur when I grew them some years ago.

[Yabba]

We use sulphur as well, but store them upside down, it allows water to drain out of the necks

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[Babstreefern]

Thanks guys, knew you could help

[Paul Plots]

So I really ought to oik mine out from the carrier bags I brought them home in from the allotment a couple of weeks ago... 

They were lovely - grew huge and then.....huger...

A present from my OH. Only problem was we can't eat them and wanted the space for a bigger strawberry patch. I'm hoping our friend (with the flint cottage and converted barn extension) will stick them in her garden as she has tons of space. 

[Comfortably Numb]

So I really ought to oik mine out from the carrier bags I brought them home in from the allotment a couple of weeks ago... 

They were lovely - grew huge and then.....huger...

A present from my OH. Only problem was we can't eat them and wanted the space for a bigger strawberry patch. I'm hoping our friend (with the flint cottage and converted barn extension) will stick them in her garden as she has tons of space. 

Umm, plastic carrier bags and damp dahlia tubers. Not a good combination 

[missycat]

do dahlia tubers have to be lifted? I put mine in this year but assumed you just left them! If I do have to lift, can it wait a few more weeks they are flowering like mad at the moment.

[Yabba]

do dahlia tubers have to be lifted? I put mine in this year but assumed you just left them! If I do have to lift, can it wait a few more weeks they are flowering like mad at the moment.

Ours survived last winter in the ground @ norbreck

The ones at home I normally leave until the first frost kills the tops, then I cut them down and ( if I can be arsed ), lift the tubers and store them

The ones at the field we try and lift by the end of nov and overwinter them in a garage

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[Yabba]

Umm, plastic carrier bags and damp dahlia tubers. Not a good combination 

Amazingly enough, some of ours survived much worse care/conditions ( we got *very* lucky ) ... we lost 100% of the ones that got to hot though

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[Paul Plots]

do dahlia tubers have to be lifted? I put mine in this year but assumed you just left them! If I do have to lift, can it wait a few more weeks they are flowering like mad at the moment.

Mine had been out on the plot for three years or more.... just cut them down and plonked a heap of compost on the top. Blessed things regrew every year - bigger and stronger each time. Little shelter but near the back of the shed.

I decided that they just had to go.... will stick a few in the front garden at home, some in my parent's place and the rest to a friend...if they survive the plastic-bag treatment - which I fear they might if not left there too long.