Welcome to this dahlia forum, flowerluvr53! I sometimes chat on cubits, too, and grow for the same reasons you do. Happy to have you join us for dahlia chitchat here, for sure!
My dahlia garden is officially planted, aside from the 4-5 tubers that I'm planning on sneaking into the landscape around my yard tomorrow. It has been cool and gray here, and I'm hoping the Sun comes out of it's quarantine VERY soon! I cruised the garden today, staring at the soil hoping for any sign of sprouts breaking through. It hasn't even been a week since I planted, and the impatience is already showing up...yet both Shaggy Chic tubers surprised me and are sprouting above ground. Woohoo!
