Dahlias 2012 season

[robh]

hope its not to frosty the weekend tell i plan to do some walkin in saltaire ilkley lookin forward to visiting 7 locks rise

[Cherry]

That will be wonderful Robh. Take your camera and let us see some of the scenery.

[Tel]

I don't think you will find any dahlias there Rob.

[robh]

no tell i wont but my wife is sick of me goin on about them she thinks i am getting obsesed dont get me wrong she likes them when they bloom but is glad to get the bed room back

[Tel]

I know what you mean Rob, the OH says i love my dahlias more than her. ;D

[dcdahlia]

Off work for a week now so hopefully weather permiting I will get a lot done in the new garden but not today,I'm off to st james park ( it will never be the sports direct arena) to see the mags move one step closer to the champions league.

[Tel]

I hope the weather is favourable for you this week DC so you can get on with the garden.

[Tel]

Will have to pop down to the allotment and take all the dahlias back out of the greenhouse, now the frost hopefully is over.

[scrumpy]

About 70% of mine now in 5" pots and stopped.

Decided to try poms this year for the first time and ordered Minley Carol. They are about 4-5" tall, very compact, showing buds already.
Is this normal for them?

[dcdahlia]

Showing buds already will be ok for minley carol scrumpy,it needs a double stop because blooms tend to go oversize,so if you have shows in the middle of august I would stop it now then again in about 4/6 weeks and hopefully that should keep the size down.

[scrumpy]

Cheers, i'll get rid of those buds. They just seem so weak to be able to cope with a double stop. We shall see.

[dcdahlia]

Well I was getting on well in he new garden but it looks like the weather has put a dampener on that (literally).I have deciced to keep one of the raised beds and grow some veg it is 20 feet by 14 feet and I am gonna grow some swede,sprouts,leeks,red cabbage and some pea pods.This area is cleaned and rotavated I just need to split it into 4 beds.All that is left to do is clean the weed off the rest of the garedn and rotavate,but it looks like a greenhouse day today. .The area I grow my poms in is rotavated and ready and I just need to rotavate my covered area in my original garden,still not sure what varieties and amounts to grow as it remains to be seen if I will get a frame put up in the new garden this year.At the moment it looks like 240 covered and grown tight in the original garden plus 2 dozen poms and some minatures and tryouts in the new garden uncovered.

[dcdahlia]

I've been given 10 plants of a seedling to try,a mini dec called westerton scallywag raised by gordon hodgson who raised westerton folly which halls of heddon released this year.

[Tel]

May 11, 2012 14:43:20 GMT dcdahlia said:

I've been given 10 plants of a seedling to try,a mini dec called westerton scallywag raised by gordon hodgson who raised westerton folly which halls of heddon released this year.

I hope it grows ok for you DC, you will have to let us all know what your opinion of it is.

[scrumpy]

My new one for this year was going to be Barbarry Sultan.
Unfortunately, the cuttings I received were worse than diabolical. I've tried hard to get some sort of shape and growth from them but still not too good. Will probably grow them for pot tubers for next year.