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How to store dahlias: tips for experienced gardeners

Dahlias are surprisingly beautiful and graceful flowers that can give any garden a truly fabulous and even somewhat magical look. Whatever it was, but the vegetative period passes, and winter sets in, bringing with it a lot of worries.

In particular, it is during this period that beginning gardeners are wondering how to store dahlias. But if you organize this event incorrectly, then the next year your garden will not be so beautiful.

First option

Dig up the tubers, shake them off the ground, then spread out to dry in a dry and well-ventilated place. After about six days they need to be cleaned of the remains of the earth and roots, and the stem is cut six centimeters above the root collar.

The slices are treated with lime. After this, the tubers are kept for a further week at a constant temperature of 20-25 degrees Celsius.

By the way! Since keeping dahlias without having an appropriately equipped room is not easy, it is advisable to begin its construction in advance.

For a week of exposure, the sections can be covered with a strong cork layer. After this, you need to take wooden boxes, the bottom and sides of which are covered with two layers of newsprint.

At the bottom pour a couple of centimeters of fertile soil and put the tubers there. They also fall asleep on the ground, and it is better to try as carefully as possible to fill all the voids. Then the next row is laid. This method guarantees almost 100% safety of your seed material.

Since storing dahlias in this way can only those who have a ready-equipped cellar, consider a more common situation.

The second option

Our ancestors also acted somewhat differently, covering the tubers with a clay shell. As in the first case, dug dahlias need to be cleared from the ground and dried for four days. After that they are finally cleaned of the remnants of the earth, after which they are lowered into a dark pink solution of potassium permanganate for 12 hours .

Prepare a mallet from red clay, the consistency of which should resemble thick sour cream. Since storing dahlias because of problems with fungi is not easy, the mixture does not prevent adding some fungicide. Each tuber is dipped into clay and dried within a day.

The resulting "billet" can be stored all winter on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Before planting, they are cleaned from the containment and planted in the ground.

And how to store dahlias in winter, if we proceed from general recommendations? It is believed that the optimum air temperature in the storage should not exceed seven degrees Celsius (1-7 degrees), humidity is preferable within 80%. In these conditions, the planting material not only does not go into premature growth, but also does not dry out due to a lack of moisture in the air.

And one more way

If you do not have the ability to store tubers in a cellar or refrigerator, you can use the proven method. To do this, several dahlias are placed in a dense black plastic bag, covered with clean and calcined sand (absolutely dry!), After which, as tightly as possible, seal, preventing moisture from entering it.

So we told you how to keep the tubers of dahlias in winter!

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