The Fix- For Now At Least

So we have done some work on fixing our drowning dahlias problem. But will wait until next week to complete it. We are in the middle of a heat wave so I’m waiting until that passes to replant.

We dug the rotted dahlias out of the row this week. Didn’t have to take everything but removed about 35% of it.

It doesn’t take long to see that there are no tuber clumps at the base of these plants. They were completely rotted. We did find a few plants that had some small tuber clumps - my guess is that these were rooted cuttings we planted really early. We will replant those once we improve the drainage. We will add compost and probably some gypsum now and then redo the whole field this fall.

I did find we still had a few cuttings of this variety left so we’ll plant those and just fill in the rest with small clumps of Blizzard tubers. The row will still be all white, we’ll just have to label the plants carefully. It’s no fun to have to fix this mid- season but I’m thankful it’s early enough to fix it!