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Post by dcdahlia on Oct 20, 2012 10:04:19 GMT
Another 90 uncovered mary and then 250 covered to start on.I want them all up by next weekend.
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Post by marynz on Oct 20, 2012 10:18:44 GMT
That'll keep you out of mischief for a few days then!
I want mine in next weekend. I was aiming for this weekend, but there is a 3 degree night forecast in the coming week, and 3C on the forecast is sometimes a frost in real life, so I am waiting. The poms are in, and I never dug the NoID bed, so that's about two dozen plants which already have their roots in the dirt.
It is supposed to rain all day tomorrow, but I hope to sort the Dahlias into planting groups anyway. They have got all mixed up by moving them out into the sun, then back under shelter when frost warnings came. A lot of these Dahlia migration events have happened in the dark when the frost warning came, so you can imagine the resultant chaos.
I have pinched perhaps a third of the plants out already. Others are not that far on, or I am still hoping they will shoot.
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Post by snute2008 on Oct 20, 2012 19:06:17 GMT
Is it OK to dig them up before the first frosts? I am in Cornwall and the weather is still very mild, plus there is a change I might be able to show some blooms at a show first weekend in November.
Whats the best procedure, cut them down, leave for a week and then dig up?
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Post by dcdahlia on Oct 20, 2012 20:27:43 GMT
If the weather is forecast mild snute leave them in as long as you can,the longer in the ground the less chance they will have to rot when lifted.I am starting to get mine up earlier this year because I have that many (450) in and I am going away first weekend in november.I go through and cut them all down first and then dig them up.
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Post by Tel on Oct 23, 2012 19:19:35 GMT
Frost forecast for the weekend and cold during the day.
I will get mine up before the weekend and get the tubers stored in the heated greenhouse at home.
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Post by marynz on Oct 24, 2012 2:28:09 GMT
Our frost this morning missed my neighbourhood. I hope yours is not too bad.
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Post by Tel on Oct 24, 2012 18:35:29 GMT
You do not need any frost at the start of your season, to much to lose. Our season is well over now, some will have lifted there tubers and others will be after this cold spell this weekend.
Brought the majority of mine home today from the allotment, the rest will will be brought home tomorrow, then there is 3 in the garden to dig out.
Then we start all over again next year. ;D
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Post by marynz on Oct 24, 2012 18:41:17 GMT
Pretty nippy this morning, too. I hope the weather will behave better from now on!
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Post by Tel on Oct 25, 2012 15:32:59 GMT
All the dahlia's i require for next years cuttings, are now stored in the greenhouse at home.  |
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Post by marynz on Oct 25, 2012 18:04:38 GMT
Do you store as whole crowns, or as divided tubers, Tel?
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Post by Tel on Oct 25, 2012 18:21:41 GMT
Do you store as whole crowns, or as divided tubers, Tel? Moorplace Pom is stored as a full ground tuber, then replanted at the beginning of May. There is a few that have just been grown in 3in pots for stock this year, then i have the majority that were planted in their 3in pots into the ground along side the one's that were taken out of the pots and planted, i keep very few of those, i either compost them or give them away. |
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Post by marynz on Oct 27, 2012 7:45:12 GMT
Lots of weeding and digging today. Dahlias are still mostly in pots while I get out tree roots, dock and couch grass where they need to go. I found another self-sown Dahlia seedling while weeding a bed where I let some overwinter in soil. I think I have found six there now. I will let them flower and see what they are. There was a plant in that bed which had a lot of open centred blooms, although it shouldn't have, so they probably belong to it. It was DD Frosted Lace - see www.flickr.com/photos/mary_on_flickr/6801620044/in/photostream . |
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Post by dcdahlia on Oct 27, 2012 9:12:03 GMT
All tubers will be up by the end of the weekend.Woke up this morning to an inch of snow.
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Post by Tel on Oct 27, 2012 10:01:57 GMT
All tubers will be up by the end of the weekend.Woke up this morning to an inch of snow. That will keep them warm DC ;D |
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Post by scrumpy on Oct 27, 2012 11:10:52 GMT
mine are still flowering nicely |
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