Flower Plans Spring 2018 Who else is in..

[KarenO]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Did you get the dwarf sunflower idea from me? I sold all of mine on Saturday, too, even though they were smaller than normal and freeze-nipped around the edges. I'm surprised no one else at my market is selling them yet.

I'm new to planting flower bulbs/tubers. I don't really understand why they leave all the little sweet potato-looking things on the dahlia tubers, when the eye is coming up from the central stem. It would be a lot easier to cut all the rest off, but I imagine it is there for a reason, so I left everything intact.

The tubers are storage for starches to feed the plant and help it overwinter in areas where they can stay in the ground but are not necessary for first year plants which can be grown quite successfully from cuttings
KarenO