Something has been taking my dahlias. When I got home from work last Tuesday, one of my dahlias was missing. It was three feet tall, and had a flower on it, and it was gone! All of it. There was a hole in the ground where the bulb used to be, and there was crumbly dirt in the hole.
My initial thought was that someone came into my yard and dug it up. The dirt around the hole was smooth and compacted, like someone used a shovel.
But this evening, I took a quick walk through my dahlias and found another one missing. This one was over 4 feet tall, and tied to a stake. The plant below the tie was gone without a trace. But the plant above the tie, with a flower and several bulbs, was sitting on the ground, still connected to the stake. I figured if someone stole the plant, they would have taken the flowers too.
Any ideas?
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Call the extension office and see if they know of anything that likes to eat dahlias. I'm baffled.
You need to set up a surveillance camera. Someone is stealing your dahlias.
I really don't think a critter is doing this. A critter would have been getting at the dahlia long before now.
I start Master Gardener training on
Thursday, so I'll ask about it then. My boss thinks someone is stealing them too. We don't have the resources to set up a surveillance camera, so I'll just have to deal with it.
Leave a sign that says, in effect, Ask and I'll give you a start, but please don't steal from me. Wonder if it was some kid taking his/her mother some flowers.
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