When digging dahlias and how best to store

My high school years I have been associated with two bouquets - a bouquet of dahlias and other - of gladioli. However, one year I had a break in the cultivation of these beautiful flowers, they are just frozen in the winter. Since then, I try to time to plant, dig up and put on the correct storage.

That's about dahlias today and will be discussed, as has already been hit freezing, it's time to dig out. In different regions different weather. We already have the first snow fell in the Volga region. The first snow or the first frost when knocked, then immediately after that, you can dig up the roots of dahlias delicate heat-loving.

To begin, I used to cut the stems at a distance of somewhere between 7 centimeters from the ground. Preferably in dry weather, but there could be as lucky. The next day, after cutting the stems, I carefully dig dahlia roots, gently clean off the ground, but not completely. I leave to dry either in the sun or indoors stacked on paper or any other paper and cardboard backing.

Then thoroughly cleaned from the ground, you can even wash. Purified balls put in a very weak solution of potassium permanganate is not more than an hour. After soaking, so it is necessary to dry thoroughly. I hung them in cloth bags for a couple of days. Then I put in the basement in specially prepared box of sand.

It can be put in a slightly moistened sand, if the processing carried out by any fungicide, so I specifically soaked in potassium permanganate. I'm in the basement temperature is usually in the range of 3-10 degrees. That's near the cabbage I store dahlia tubers in a sand box. Our atmosphere, so to speak, and the storage temperature is ideal for flowers, they do not rot, do not dry, do not freeze and do not sprout prematurely.

If one has a basement or cellar with such suitable conditions, it can be stored in the refrigerator, in the bottom drawer. Organize there for them the appropriate conditions in a cardboard box filled with sand or sawdust, having covered the top cover. The refrigerator temperature is always roots for the stable, will not germinate.

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