Dahlias: Dahlias Summer 2015, 1 by psudan

psudan wrote:
It's over! The blooming is officially finished. I cut off most of the remaining blooms this morning. The rain and wind would have ruined them anyway. We had a light frost early yesterday morning that you could mostly only see on the car windows. It's been raining all day and I'm getting anxious to dig the tubers before we get some torrential downpours.

I'm getting ready for storing. I bought a bottle of copper fungicide and another of Captan fungicide this morning. Also got a big bag of rubbers bands and a box of sandwich bags to cover the dahlia stalks after cutting. I haven't found the coarse vermiculite yet. I usually get it at Lowes. I bought a bag of cedar pet bedding to try out. I will try to stay out of the way of those razor knives this year. lol