Comments on: Overwintering Tropicals: Part I https://www.scottarboretum.org/overwintering-tropicals-part-i/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Ted Patterson https://www.scottarboretum.org/overwintering-tropicals-part-i/#comment-802 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:57:32 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=2495#comment-802 Re: dahlias, the Colorado Dahlia Society has several articles and links on storing tubers over the winter.
http://www.dahlias.net/seabox/savem.htm
http://www.dahlias.net/dahwebpg/CultureIndex/Culture.htm

]]> By: Eunice Silver https://www.scottarboretum.org/overwintering-tropicals-part-i/#comment-801 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:32:20 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=2495#comment-801 Thanks!

]]> By: Andrew Bunting https://www.scottarboretum.org/overwintering-tropicals-part-i/#comment-800 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:57:58 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=2495#comment-800 With regards to dahlias we cut the foliage and stems off leaving the tuber. They then can be placed in a crate or a black plastic pot with some mulch or compost underneath the tube and then some on top as well. Placing them in a cellar or the a basement with similar conditions would be best.

Andrew Bunting, Curator

]]> By: Eunice Silver https://www.scottarboretum.org/overwintering-tropicals-part-i/#comment-799 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:37:30 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=2495#comment-799 Would you store dahlia tubers in mulch/leaf compost?

]]> By: Barbara Shaw https://www.scottarboretum.org/overwintering-tropicals-part-i/#comment-798 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:49:27 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=2495#comment-798 Great follow-up to the Arboretum Assistant talk.

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