Dahlias: Dahlias - Summer's End/Storage 2014 Part 2, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
I can tell you don't have deer, Etelka. They adore eating our sweet potato vine!

When I tried tying up the dahlias (some for the sixth time!) earlier this week, I also had branches breaking so I just removed them. Others are lying flat on the ground so I'll try and rescue them today. I guess by early September they all need to be tied to the stakes again or we risk having them sprawl on the good earth.

One that got much too wide and too tall just broke from the base so I'll have to buy it again next year and give it three stakes and maybe a big tomato cage as well. Here it is before it fell.

Mary, I agree that the poor dahlia looks like a captive.