On my site I grow several varieties of dahlias in height from 30 cm to two meters. Among them the cactus, Terry, lace dahlia.
Wintering for garden beautiful dahlias
I look at them, and I think that the nature of the example of this plant if she wanted to show all the features of his boundless imagination, creating a spectacular beauty. Due dahlias garden in the second half of the summer seems to be full of flowers.
Wilting garden beauty
The first autumn frosts violate autumn festival of colors and the beauty of autumn begin to honk about digging. The euphoria of seeing the graceful beauty has passed, and it's time to think about its wintering.
- Up to this point in September I stop watering, fertilizing and always spud bush dahlia tubers that have absorbed more nutrients, and the stems are not broken down by the wind.
- In October (the exact date depends on the weather) before digging up tubers cut off inconspicuous, touched the cold air drooping stems, leaving 15 cm from the ground.
- Dig the bushes only a pitchfork, shovel, you can cut the tubers. I feel sorry for her hands to pull the stems out of the ground, so I'm doing a solid tunnel to get to the nest.
Shower and disinfection of tubers
After removal from the ground socket I I wash tubers with water from a hose and immediately placed in a potassium permanganate solution for disinfection.
- I withstand a half-hour, and remove the liquid from zanoshu dry dark barn drying.
- Lay on the floor or tubers Doschatoe shelf upwardly tails to remove excess of moisture stem.
In this state, at a temperature of 10-12 degrees they are "live" 10 days. Then I decide the question of how to preserve the tubers in the winter.
To bush was beautiful and strong
Nest dahlia tubers consists of a plurality of different sizes. So the family of their plant for next year is not worth - a lot of tubers per well, oddly enough, to the weak shrub, which grows smaller flowers.
- I divide it into several parts with three healthy tubers having buds on the root neck.
- cut site treat with powdered charcoal, remove the small spines, similar to the thread, and the culling of damaged tubers.
- All the planting material sprinkle wood ash and placed in cardboard boxes for storage.
- The bottom of the box was covered with a bag from under the sugar or wallpaper left over after repairs. On each box pasting tape tag with the name of the class, not to mix in the spring.
- I fall asleep all these jewels dry peat, sawdust or sand.
Closed boxes were placed in the basement, where summer and winter temperatures kept at 3 - 6 degrees above zero. Under such conditions, planting material does not shrink before the due date will not germinate.
Small tubers are stored worse than larger ones. Therefore, all the detail I pick up after drying in the cloth bag and store in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator bottom.
By the way, I almost forgot! Every year I try to fill up your flower garden with new varieties, but the quality planting material, whether it be the bulbs or tubers, or seeds of flowers and vegetables my friend-neighbor always gain here, And you can come in handy.
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