Ask-a-Dave's-Gardener: what is killing my dahlias and how to fix, 3 by radientred

radientred wrote:
Dear Audrey, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I live in the Pacific Northwest which is listed as a place that has this problem. It has attacked at least 10 of my brand new dinner plate dahlias! And Only my dahlias. I have grown Dahlias for the past 4 years without any problems except earwigs. It doesn\'t make sense to me that it all of a sudden it has appeared. The soil is different in each place it has appeared. Anyway I will try my hardest to save my dahlias as I enter them in the fair each year. Here are some of last years winners. THAN YOU AGAIN!