Mid-Atlantic Gardening: August blooms, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
luvsgreatdanes----

I had heard that 4's make serious tubers.....so I decided to dig and see.
Well--they were almost twice as massive as any Dahlia could produse--and that was from seed that same Spring!
I dug them up--let them air dry outside--then took them to my basement and threw them in a box. I may have, eventually, thrown a few hand-fulls of Peat Moss over them. Other than that--I just forgot them.....

Came Spring--and I started looking for them until I found them.....NO signs of life!
So, I put them in a plastic salad container of some sort and put potting mix all around the tubers.
Soon I noticed a bit of green growth and was so excited.....THEN--the growth just took off!

So--I planted it in my bed--and the rest is history!

Here is a picture of the tubers. They lost that "polka dot" appearance as they dried out.....