Dahlias

My dahlias are starting to bloom...I seem to have lost lots of labels but I'm hoping I can name them once they start. The tubers from last years seeds bulked up nicely.

I got a few new tubers but I wasn't so impressed this year - I had what I think was leaf gall/ or maybe even crown gall? I did complain and had some new tubers sent but it doesn't make up for the work I did or the compost that I used on them when it was so difficult to get.

Here's some photos just Incase someone else gets similar. The stems come up very spindly, lots of them and if you scrape off or wash the soil away you can see loads of little nodes on the the tuber that push out lots of tiny thin leafy stems. I had to bin them and the soil.