How to remove and store dahlias

Many gardeners grow dahlias. It is a flower that adorns your site from August and pleases us with the flowering of the whole of September, up to the first frost. How to store dahlias?

How to remove a flower bed

First of all, you need to cut the stems with leaves, before dig flowers. Then shovel to slowly undermine the ground on all sides of the plant. Do not pull the stems, it may damage the root neck. Clean your hands extra land to whom it was not so heavy, and take over the bottom of the plant, remove it from the ground. Again remove the excess soil to the roots with a wooden (non-metallic) sticks. The stems and leaves (if left) again trim shears. Then it takes a bit dry tubers are dug up, that is a little zavetrit.

storage method

Now dahlias should be placed in some sort of container. I take the fruit drawer and blanketed him down film. I fall asleep sawdust layer 4-5 cm. They must be pre-treated with copper sulfate (1 tbsp. spoon on 1.5 liter plastic bottle).

Copper sulfate - is a fungicide that prevents the development of various rots.

Pour a little into a separate container and mix with sawdust (do the procedure you need to wear gloves!). Sawdust in the end should be moist, but not wet. And put the saw dust in a drawer, and then top compactly tubers of dahlias. Next, a layer of sawdust to fall asleep again treated with a copper sulfate. Store in a basement.

Here's a simple way to store dahlias there.

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