I’ll never forget the fall day when I was so excited to dig up the 80+ dahlia tubers I’d grown during my first year of flower farming. I watched all the pros do it on social media and I couldn’t wait to see how many extra tubers my originals had grown. Instead, when I dug up my first one, it weighed over 10 pounds—it took two hands to hold! There was no tuber to be seen because it was completely covered in a massive clump of clay. 

I immediately decided that I was never dealing with that again. Cue the great build. In just over two seasons, I built 66 raised beds.