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Recommendations for winter storage of dahlias: only an experienced gardener could advise this
30.09.2024 07:33
To ensure that your plants survive the winter months and delight you with their blooms next season, it is important to ensure that they are stored properly.
Today you will learn how to properly store dahlia roots - we will share three methods at once - but before that we will still remind you that the first thing you should do is carefully inspect the raw materials in order to remove rotten or decayed areas in time. The cuts are treated with brilliant green.
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Place a 4-5 cm thick layer of dry covering material on the bottom of the box. This can be ash, earth, peat or sand.
Then place the tubers on the surface (not on top of each other) and cover completely with the same material that was used for the bottom layer.
Paraffin shell
Melt the paraffin and dip the dahlia root in it for 2-3 seconds. Let the paraffin harden, holding the tuber in the air the entire time, and then dip the rhizome again.
Dahlias treated in this way can be stored in a box.
Sawdust
Prepare a solution of copper sulfate: dilute 1 tablespoon of the product in 1.5 liters of hot water and cool the solution to room temperature.
Moisten the sawdust with the resulting solution so that it becomes damp, but not wet. Place a layer of damp sawdust 4-5 centimeters high in a suitable container (you can take a basin). Place the roots of the dahlias on the layer of sawdust.
Cover the dahlias with the remaining sawdust so that they are completely covered and take them to a cool place with a temperature of +2 to +7 degrees, for example, to a basement.
