Eight volunteers met with Leslie and Holly, a recent apprentice recruit, for the task of cutting down and taking up the dahlia tubers plus taking out the stakes we had put in earlier in the year [29th May].
I admit I thought it was just a case of digging them up and putting them in a pile. WRONG! As the tubers are to be used next year we had to cut them down, gently fork them out, dust off as much soil as possible and tie the label that was with each plant around the tubers. This is so they can be sorted by species to ensure they have a uniform display ready for planting next year. It's a lot more detailed than that but that's the abridged version!
It was a lovely morning with lots of visitors due to the Halloween trail they were doing. We had a lot of people interested in what we were doing and why we were doing it as there were still a lot of lovely dahlias on show. Then, unfortunately, the heavens opened so obviously after getting quite wet we had an early lunch after which the sunshine came out and the gardens got even busier.
Thanks to Leslie and Holly for their hospitality and to my colleagues for their hard work and good company.
Christine
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