02/09/2024
This is a painful post to write, but this is the look of death y’all.
I am still going through crates to salvage survivors but it is pretty clear that the recent ice storm devastated my dahlia collection. Our cooler go too cold when we lost power and we acted too slowly to save them. A painful, expensive lesson. So many mixed emotions.
We will for sure not be having a tuber sale this year. From the survivors, we will be taking cuttings to salvage what we have, and generate some stock for trading/selling in a couple months time.
I don’t really know what else to write. On the one hand, I am pretty mad at myself. Major imposter syndrome trying not to take over my brain. Some of these varieties I’ve had since 2018. My old reliables. Some I had thanks to braving the cut throat, heart wrenching dahlia sales. Uuuuugh. Trying not to think about that. Also not trying to think about what this means for my little business and whether we can sustain such a financial loss. Being the only product we can sell nationwide, tuber sales were a huge chunk of our annual income.
On the other hand, I don’t just grow dahlias and I’m thankful for that in this moment. Our CSAs this year are going to be phenomenal (still taking orders for those!), we now have more time for seed starting and maybe even more space for midsummer flowers. Pumpkins are coming too. I do love the variety that each part of the season brings. One loss is not a total loss. But it does still suck because of all the things, dahlias are the most constant year round work. I definitely won’t wait to divide ever again… probably.
ANYWAY, if you got this far, thanks for reading my stream of consciousness ramble. Virtual hugs appreciated. I am sad but also ready to roll up my sleeves, get my hands in the dirt and pivot. Take cuttings. Plant dahlia seeds. Perhaps nab some new varieties I never had room for? It’s going to be okay! But yeah, no online tuber sale 🙃😬🥲
