Dahlias: Favorites of 2014, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Congratulations, Mary!

I agree, Tod, that trying to keep up in October would take most of my time. Then it is "so much" work but all of October into mid November I have lots of vases filled in the house.

You got it, Dan. Just store them as they come from the good earth. It's how I always did it until I learned more but last storage season was awful so I went back to my old ways. I won't check them until snow or January...whichever comes first. Good luck Dr. Frankenstein.

Tod - we had a January day, maybe the 13th of January, that filled the beaches out here when it hit the 70's. My guess is that it was 2008. In 1992 I was out with a sweater on planting tulips in January.

Dahlianut, formerly of DG, used to say that Dec. 21 was the start of spring. I like that outlook.

I've been very busy outside, for 4 to 5 hours a day, getting jobs done I never thought I'd get to this year. It's so rewarding! I put up more deer fencing a few days ago and more will go up on Friday.

For Mary and Damien, my first place winning photo in the iris category: