totally tubular....

I have been loving figuring out how to garden - what grows well, what blooms when, what works and what just doesn't...

Early in the spring I bought some tubers from the girl next door - a fundraiser...
$20 got me 3 Dahlia tubers, or bulbs, or whatever it is you might call them....

I'll admit - I was convinced I was just donating the $20 - I did not think they would bloom, much less bloom so beautifully and overtake the entire front of my garden...some of them were 5 & 6 feet tall!


But now, even though we've had a remarkable fall with awesomesauce weather...
It's time to prepare the gardens for snow...

And that means...well, that means that if you don't dig up the Dahlia tubers...they most likely won't come back here in Zone 4...

Yikes.
I'm brand new to this...
I did over winter my geraniums last year with success...so how hard can this be right?
I got a lot of varying information via the internet but found what seemed somewhat simple and ran with it...

I can tell you one thing...
What you see below is NOT what I planted...I planted three average to large sized bulby things...

These things have gone hog wild...

And quite frankly, look a little...

disturbing and gross...

But...I've packed them in some peat moss and will tuck them away in our crawl space...

AKA, a cool dark space...

And we'll see what new life we can find in the springtime...