| Buy dormant tubers in winter, either by mail from a specialty nursery or from a nursery or garden center. |
| It has white flowers in a whorled, bracteate raceme, no spathe, roots with tubers. |
| Most slugs eat decaying vegetation, but readily switch to young or delicate plants, feeding on the leaves, stems, roots and tubers. |
| In many countries, it is cultivated for its starchy tubers, sometimes called air potatoes or Chinese yams. |
| Dormant dahlia tubers can be potted up this month to get them going before planting out in May or June. |
| They also eat leaves, shoots, roots, tubers, and seeds of most grasses and forbs, or broadleafed flowering plants. |
