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I am posting this because I don't want to throw out viable plants, and I don't want to take on a hopeless cause, depending on which it is likely to be!
About eighteen months ago I bought some Dahlia tubers, but as this coincided with my wife becoming very ill, I never got around to doing anything with them. They are still in the cardboard box in which they arrived. I noticed in the spring that they had sprouted, but again, I couldn't find time to do anything with them. It was as much as I could do to find time to mow the lawns. I forgot about the tubers until the other day when I came across them, whilst clearing out the utility room.
They look okay. (About as good as Dahlia tubers ever do.) Will they grow on next season? Can anyone tell me please? Or should I throw them out? I feel stupid asking this really, because I have a feeling they will have dried out. Oh well, it might provide a little talking point. I don't know what the varieties are, as this info wasn't included.
Not very satisfactory, so can anyone recommend a reliable, useful and expert supplier?
I feel even more stupid when I remember my father was a very keen dahlia grower, and every year had a massive display, which used to attract passers-by in the field at the back. They would pause and lean on our fence to admire (And steal blooms now and then.)
Okay so I know I should know more than I do! . But no one is perfect!
PS I want to enter my hardiness zone, but:
a) I don't know it.
b) I can't find out how to do it anyway!
Gawd! I am a plank!
About eighteen months ago I bought some Dahlia tubers, but as this coincided with my wife becoming very ill, I never got around to doing anything with them. They are still in the cardboard box in which they arrived. I noticed in the spring that they had sprouted, but again, I couldn't find time to do anything with them. It was as much as I could do to find time to mow the lawns. I forgot about the tubers until the other day when I came across them, whilst clearing out the utility room.
They look okay. (About as good as Dahlia tubers ever do.) Will they grow on next season? Can anyone tell me please? Or should I throw them out? I feel stupid asking this really, because I have a feeling they will have dried out. Oh well, it might provide a little talking point. I don't know what the varieties are, as this info wasn't included.
Not very satisfactory, so can anyone recommend a reliable, useful and expert supplier?
I feel even more stupid when I remember my father was a very keen dahlia grower, and every year had a massive display, which used to attract passers-by in the field at the back. They would pause and lean on our fence to admire (And steal blooms now and then.)
Okay so I know I should know more than I do! . But no one is perfect!
PS I want to enter my hardiness zone, but:
a) I don't know it.
b) I can't find out how to do it anyway!
Gawd! I am a plank!