Back to Thinking About Garden Stuff
dahlia, unknown ID, 2024 That last blog post was so dark. Must be the lack of sunlight affecting my holiday mood. Back to talking about garden-ish stuff. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming. In the Spring of 2021, Leto and were driving down Main Street, heading out of town, when we spotted a box on the side of the road that read: Free Dahlias. Red. Pink. I don't know about you, but I brake for dahlias. Actually, I had never grown dahlias. I had always heard they were fussy. Too work intensive. And besides, they were just flowers. How good could they be? We stopped along the side of the road, spun the car around and stopped to retrieve the box of pink and red dahlias. Laughter filled the car as we realized that our combined knowledge of what to do with a box of dahlias could be summed up as: plant 'em and see what happens. What we discovered in the summer of 2021 was that these tubers really wanted to grow! Planted just after Mother's Day, they were bl...