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Post by Geranium on Jun 5, 2012 5:38:11 GMT
I potted on the ones Lou kindly sent me, and looked at the survivors from last year - I shall have a few Dahlias, anyway! ;D One that survived is 'Rebecca's World' I'm specially pleased about her. I loved the flowers!  |
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Post by Tel on Jun 7, 2012 18:43:49 GMT
Hi, I am getting ready to mark out my allotment for the planting of my dahlias. I have Poms, small ball, decs and some semi cactus. I have marked out 3 foot rows with 2 foot paths inbetween. What I am struggling with now is the spacing between the plants, obviously it is different for each type. The more I read on the internet the more confusing it is as everyone seems to have a different method. I have four, three foot posts on each side of the row and I am going to use pea netting to support them stretched over the posts. As an example I have been told to plant in the rows in triangles and for poms plant a foot apart. Any further advice would be appreciated. Thanks. I plant mine 2ft apart, except for giants they are planted 3ft apart Moorplace Pom, i plant 2ft apart, but after stopping them twice they finsh up by Sept, where you cannot tell where one plant ends and the other begins. |
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Post by Tel on Jun 7, 2012 18:50:35 GMT
Finshed planting the varieties i want for shows this year, 4 day's ago.  |
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Post by dcdahlia on Jun 7, 2012 19:05:23 GMT
Still have 140 to plant out in the new garden and looking at the weather its not going to be anytime soon,  |
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Post by Tel on Jun 8, 2012 7:07:47 GMT
Still have 140 to plant out in the new garden and looking at the weather its not going to be anytime soon, A lot of my dahlia seedlings will be learning to swim if this rain continues. |
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Post by candyblue on Jun 8, 2012 7:12:07 GMT
We have managed to get two rows in this week as we only got back from Majorca on Monday but have so many more to plant and this torrential rain pretty much hasnt stopped since we got back, need to get them in by the end of the weekend as one of my shows is fairly early
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Post by dcdahlia on Jun 8, 2012 16:55:15 GMT
Managed to get 18 kiwi gloria in in a rare dry spell before the heavens opened again
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Post by candyblue on Jun 9, 2012 15:49:59 GMT
All the ones I am putting in the ground are now in
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Post by robh on Jun 9, 2012 16:06:30 GMT
nice dahlia,s there dc how is the new allotment comeing on how many dahlias have u put in we got the rest of our dahlias from station house yesterday will see what they are like i have got about a hundred dahlias pus some tubers but there is nothing on them
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Post by dcdahlia on Jun 9, 2012 18:25:30 GMT
I intend to finnish planting out tomorrow robh.I still have 120 to plant in the new garden,that will make 168 in there and I have 248 in my framed area in the old garden plus 24 poms uncovered.That will be 440 in total with 248 covered and 192 uncovered.
This years harrogate show schedule arrived today.
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Post by Cherry on Jun 10, 2012 4:58:59 GMT
Candyblue you have worked hard and I hope this will be a good year for you. Of course I hope for the best from all our forum members, but not many ladies take dahlias to exhibition level. I hope Lou's are looking good too.
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Post by candyblue on Jun 10, 2012 7:00:51 GMT
Thanks I hope everyone on here does well too, it's nice to see there are still people interested in showing as it would be a shame to see the shows go down more. It will be great when we can start posting photos when the flowers are out
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Post by Lou78W on Jun 10, 2012 12:34:59 GMT
I second Cherry's good wishes for your shows Candy.  Mine aren't even in the ground yet; they are still very small.  It does not matter so much this year as I won't be entering the show this time. I'm concentrating my efforts on getting good pot tubers for next season |
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Post by dcdahlia on Jun 10, 2012 14:33:30 GMT
Well so much for today being drier its rained all morning but I've planted the last 120 out anyway or its just going to be to late.The ground was very very wet but it had to be done.The 168 uncovered in the new garden are:
kiwi gloria 18
hillcrest candy 16
hillcrest harmony 12
dikara superb 8
janal amy 12
jomanda 8
grenador pastelle 12
marys jomanda 14
joan walker 10
ryecroft brenda t 10
ruskin myra 10
charlie two 6
rose jupiter 6
craigowen 6
ruskin michelle 6
rosendale stephanie 4
kenora valentine 4
and 1 each of westerton scallywag,daleko jupiter,marston george and cherwell goldcrest.
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Post by scrumpy on Jun 10, 2012 16:19:31 GMT
I've only got 2 of those, Mary's and Brenda.
My Totals and varieties for this year are
Giants
Sir Alf x 6, Fairway Spur x 6, Kea Magic x 4 , Candlelight x4
Medium Decs
Dikara Moon x 5, Ryecroft Magnum x 5, Ryecroft Rebel x 6,
White Charlie Two x 4
Medium Semi Cactus
Ruskin Bride x 6, Susan Gilliott x 6, Pym's Moonlight x 3 and my Sport x 5
Small Decs
Senzoe Ursula x 6, Winholme Diane x 6, Barbarry Melody x 8, Brenda T x 6, Barbarry Cosmos x 4, Barbarry Sultan x 2
Small Semi Cactus
Ryecroft Zoe, Ruskin Andrea, Oakwood Goldcrest and Gillwood Terry G....6 of each
Then we have 6 x Mary's Jomanda, 5 x Blyton Softer Gleam and
6 x Minley Carol.
Just aiming for one bloom off each plant to be ready on the day for Shrewsbury Show and that'll do me nicely.
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Mine aren't even in the ground yet; they are still very small. 
It does not matter so much this year as I won't be entering the show this time. I'm concentrating my efforts on getting good pot tubers for next season 
