Another question

[steelnut]

Last week when we were cleaning up the flower beds and planters, I was shocked to see that the dahlia's that I planted had big bulbs.

Can I somehow save them for next year? I always planted them in planters and pitched them in the fall, this year I planted some in front of the baby blueberry plants and assumed that they would be pitched, too We put them in a big container in the garden shed.

 

If it's possible to save them, what do I do?

Thanks so much in advance!

[Harvey Mungaknuts]

Yes you can save the bulbs   we have a bed and we dig them up after teh frost has killed off the tops and try and get as much soil off we can.  tehn we bag them up and keep tehm in basement  where tehy won't dry out or get too cold

[Petee]

Clean them up, let them dry for a few days indoors and pop them into peat moss for the winter.  Use some sort of a plastic tub and put it in the coolest spot in your house where there is NO light.  I cut apart a bath scrubbie and got a ton of plastic mesh to put them in, plus I add a plastic tag with the name and color of the bulb on it.  If you save a lot them you need to know what you're digging out of the peat moss.

 

Don't let each bulb touch another one so if one gets rotten it won't affect the others.