10/05/2026
It’s the least sexy time of dahlia season. Tagging in preparation for digging. I will spare you the photos of me on my hands and knees crawling under the dahlias to get them tagged. Instead - I give you my hack for prepping my surveyors tape. A clipboard makes the perfect length to wrap holding your first & last ends under the clip. A couple rubber bands hold things in place- then snip the ends. Note - you can’t get through all the layers at once, I seem to forget this every year.
The clipboard makes it easy write up tags by your bed map. Each bed gets knotted and then it’s pretty quick to just tie them off at the base of your plant.
And yes, this is addition to the tag on every plant that is already there. I’m extra like that. I’ve also found that often the plant tags get displaced in the washing process. These do not. I don’t like that it’s plastic - but I reuse these to labels the bins when I store.
