It’s time to start thinking about lifting up our tubers and getting ready for the storage season. Here are some tips and tools we use for this process.

Video walkthrough of tuber division, some literary references, positive self-talk, and a cat.

Red Velvet Dahlia Collection: Some dahlias just belong in a vase together: Arabian Night, Bacardi, Cafe au Lait Rose, Diva, Maldini, My Hero, Thomas Edison

It’s almost time to start digging the dahlia tubers. I wait until after the first frost, putting it off as long as possible. In these last few weeks of dahlia blooms, I take lots of pictures, map out my planting groups for next year, and savor the last bouquets. Because I am a gal who loves lists, here is my Autumn Dahlia Care ToDo List.

Permanent identification tags for dahlias. Use them to plan your planting and later to identify your plants and tubers.

So, you place your order (yay!) and then next week you get a notification that I have restocked and something on your Wishlist is now available. But . . . you don’t really want to pay full shipping to get that one more tuber, and I understand that, I wouldn’t want to either.

I have a solution for this.

Labyrinth is one of my new favorites — so much variety and beauty. From today until midnight on Monday the 28th, these lovelies are $5 off, no discount code required. If you caught any of the discount codes floating around on Social Media, you can add that as well!

After lifting, cleaning, and drying the tubers, it’s time to divide and store them. Here are some tips and tools we use for this process.

I am so excited to share this with you. 

Paul and Barbara Bloomquist — Whatcom County Dahlia Royalty, hybridizers of 100s of show dahlias, and winners of at least a dozen dahlia show prizes — came and shared at my garden club last weekend.  Of course I took copious notes and here are all the juicy tidbits, in the order in which we need them this fall. 

Was your favorite tuber wait-listed? If it comes available later, you can add-on to your original order to save on shipping.

I think one of the reasons I enjoy growing dahlias as much as I do is that they take the sting out of the end of summer and the onset of the grey wet season. Here are our beds, rejoicing in the October sun.

In this blog post I will cover: How to Store Dahlia Tubers Review ( from Tips & Tools for Dividing & Storing Dahlia Tubers); Temperature Control for Overwintering Dahlia Tubers; Humidity Control for Overwintering Dahlia Tubers; Devices for Monitoring Temperature and Humidity for Overwintering Dahlia Tubers