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Divide tubers and root cuttings to increase dahlia plants and provide masses of cut flowers from late summer through to the first frost.

Save your dahlias for replanting next spring! In fall, dahlia tubers or roots are dug up after frost and stored for the winter. Learn how to dig and store dahlia tubers.

Dahlias deliver brilliant color all season long. Dazzling color can be achieved throughout the summer and early fall by planting dahlias in groups.

It's necessary to keep dahlia tubers alive over winter if you want to take cuttings from them next spring. To do this you need to know how to lift and store them.

Alstroemeria flowers are easy-to-grow perennials which require only minimal care and routine maintenance to thrive in the garden for many years.

It can be difficult to let a garden go for the winter after weeding, watering and feeding plants all summer. Here are tips for maintaining plants over the winter.

Cigoli is a quaint hilltop village near the historic town of San Miniato in central Tuscany, renowned worldwide as one of Italy's leading areas for truffle hunting.

While the rest of your yard is still asleep for the winter, bulbs underground are eager to pop up before the slowpoke springtime perennials and annuals begin to show off!

While many of the most familiar bulbs are planted in the fall there are several varities of bulbs, corms and tubers which can be planted in the spring.

Learn how to germinate arisaema seed, create an artificial winter as well as when to expect your plant to bloom.

Gardening experts hold different views on allowing green shoots to develop on seed potato tubers before planting. Many kitchen gardeners value chitting practices.

Widely referred to as cassava it's known as mandioca, aipim, or macuxeira throughout Brazil. Where does the word Mandioca come from?

By properly storing seeds and tender perennials in the fall, you can ensure an early and less expensive start to next year's garden.

The potato is a native of South America; today, it is cultivated in many countries in thousands of varieties. The potato is one of the world's most valued food sources.

Colors, textures, blooms, and types--so many choices are available to the gardener in creating a beautiful yard. Here are some helpful tips to make choices easier.

Dahlias are easy to grow. Follow these quick tips to growing perfect dahlias and enjoy dahlias blooming in the flower garden and as cut flowers, too.

Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.

Long, tapered manioc tubers are dull brown and rough on the outside. The white flesh of manioc can be composed into floury, sweet and sour mouth-watering dishes.

All stems perform three basic functions: support of the leaves and flowers, fluid transport between leaves and roots, and food storage.

Sweet potatoes are very popular in the South with North Carolina being the top producing state with 40 percent of the crop.

The Jerusalem Artichoke is a little-known, North American tuber that is said to be able to heal diabetes, and it may be one of the most overlooked health foods.

With a little preparation growing your own Christmas potatoes can be easy-and a small garden or patio, a few seed potatoes, a sack and a bag of compost are all you need.

Hardy, tuberous and cane begonias are plants for shady gardens. Learn about these flowering begonias and which are best outside or as houseplants.

Home growing and harvesting your own potatoes is easy and healthy.

Begonias come in a stunning array of varieties and colors and make outstanding houseplants. Here's how to keep them lovely year round!

While low areas in the garden are often landscape challenges - think wet - and plant a water garden.

Waxy new potatoes are one of the delights of summer - and very easy to grow in the home garden.

How to store the frost tender bulbs of cannas, dahlias and gladiolus plants over the cold winter months.

The move from nomadic tribalism to the establishment of sedentary communities coincided with a food revolution tied to agricultural exploitation.

This tiny delicate terrestrial orchid is confined to parts of the Australian east coast and is considered rare.

Modern techniques make growing potatoes easy, and early potato varieties give a good crop from a small area. Here are some tips for a trouble free new potato harvest.

Vegetative propagation of plant structures is an important tool in horticulture and gardening. The use of cutting is one method of propagating plants vegetatively.

"This cabbage, these carrots, these potatoes, these onions all will become me. Such a tasty fact!" (Mike Garofalo)

Amorphophallus, possibly the world's stinkiest plant, has made headlines and brought in crowds each time it has bloomed.

Got leftover sweet potatoes? Or yams? You're in luck. There may be a cheesecake in your future!

There is nothing like having organic spuds on hand to cook for supper whenever the family feels like eating them.

Plant these summer flowers to keep your garden looking fresh and blooming all season: choose from annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs, vines and tropical plants.

Countless diets have come and gone, but research shows the Paleolithic Diet holds the key to well-being and longevity.

Creating a beautiful garden plot can be expensive, especially if the yard is large and plants have to be replaced. Here are a few ideas for making a dollar go further.

Dracuncula Vulgaris, or Arum Dracunculus is also known by the name Voodoo Lily or Dragon Flower, but what is it and how do you grow it?

The Augustinian Medieval monks knew more about black henbane, hemlock and opium than anyone alive today. It was the best medicine you could buy in the Middle Ages."

The Australian aborigines have traditionally used native plants for many things; uses of plants included food, medicine, tools, weapons, food utensils and art objects.

The Blackwater River, located in the northwest panhandle of Florida, is a pristine, shifting sand bottom river, perfect for a long leisurely float trip.

Read about the origins and medicinal properties of this traditional snack, which still remains popular today with children and adults alike.

Learn the dangers of the air potato, what it looks like, and how to remove it. This exotic invasive is a threat to Florida's native species and should be removed.

Before the ground thaws cultivate garden vegetables indoors using kitchen scraps. Common vegetables can be turned into a garden delight.

Turn kitchen scraps into a bountiful garden. Many common vegetables and herbs produce seeds or root stock that can be turned into next summers crops.

The environmentally friendly potato is the world's most important non-cereal crop.

Tubing requires little to no skill. Children, teenagers and adults can enjoy this water sport. All it takes is a watercraft, ski rope and a tube to have fun.

Grow a good crop of potatoes and prevent pests and diseases from destroying them.