How to save dahlias to spring

Growing dahlias at home, many gardeners face the problem of winter storage of their tubers. In this article we will tell you in detail how to keep the rhizomes of Georgin, so that in the summer they bloomed again and decorated the loft.

For winter storage, only well-rided tubers are suitable. Digging out of the ground they are recommended in the first decade of October. Before digging, cut a bush to a height of 10-15 cm. The tubers dig up the shovel and in no case do not pull the residue of the stem - the place of his joining the rhizoma is fragile, and the stem can just break down. At the same time, the kidneys may be damaged, which are on the neck and of which the spring materials should develop.

Dugged tubers well rinse with water - it is better from the hose (it is desirable that the earth remains at all). Divide the tubers on separate decene and cut root scissors. Digitized, with brown spots, with emptiness inside or simply chopped padded tubers throw away - they will not grow a full-fledged bush. The remains of the stems also remove, cutting them to the sleeping kidney - the cutting place to handle a medical green or sprinkle with wood ashes. Prepared by the club Lower to the basement and leave them there for 5-6 days to dry. To do this, decompose them freely on wooden shelves or on the floor, shining cardboard or thick burlap.

For winter storage, dahlias are suitable basements, loggias, sheds with temperatures of 3-7 degrees and with a constant humidity of 60%. Georgian rhizomes lay in wooden boxes, speaking them with any suitable bulk material: sand, needles, sawdust, moss-sfagnum, vermiculitis. The prerequisite is ideally dry. Watch that each individual decene does not come into contact with the other individual decenes. Experienced flowers for this use the plastic bottles cut on half, in each of which one tuber laid and peckped with sand or sawdust. Then these containers are installed in the box and sent to the basement. If in the basement temperature in the winter there will be more than 7 degrees, then it makes no sense to lower Dahlia into it. There, tubers are dried to the spring (mummify) and their kidneys will die.

So that dahlias are not dried in the heat base, they can be stored in a paraffin sheath. This is a more time-consuming method, but it takes place to be:

Buy paraffin candles or paraffin for physical sampling (in the pharmacy).
Fold the candles into a saucepan of this size so that individual decenes are placed in it.
Melt the candles and a thermometer to determine the temperature - you need 70-80 degrees.
Each decene take a big shopping tweezers and gently lower in paraffin.
Having pulled it out of the pan, visually control the whole tuber to be in paraffin.
Wait until the paraffin dry and put the dahliad deceive in the box very carefully.
In one box, lay out as many tubers so that they lay in one layer.
Drawers with tuber drop in the basement.

If you are going to save to spring only a few pieces of tubers, then use the lower shelf of the refrigerator for this. Dried decene decompose on individual polyethylene packages and tightly tie them so that the air does not fall inside. Storage in the packages is convenient because you can visually see the condition of the tubers and in the case of downloading quickly get rid of them.

Before booking, Georgine for winter storage, be sure to sign the boxes on the subject of which variety in it is. If the tubers are stored for storage in separate containers from plastic bottles, then glue a sign on them with a variety.