Hello Geof, my dahlias have started their season, the first are Berger's Record and Duet! I started to place them in their position in the various beds! They are grown indoors in plastic containers until the first flower buds show up, then hardened off and finally planted in their permanent place sometime in early December/late November which allows us to enjoy blooming dahlias all the way until late April almost 5 months of blooms. My neighbour, fence to fence ,has a huge ranch of 148000 acres ( it surrounds the local airport) , while my little farm ( that was originally part of this ranch is only 6.2 acres)...and after almost 30 years I still have left quite a few corners to deal with. Gardening forces one to concentrate one's spatial attention very intensively and also derive better forms on land use... perhaps God gives each one of us the size that really is within the scope of what each can manage...and steward it for those than will come after us... just some mutterings within , of an early Sunday morning... warmly Arturo
