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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 9:26:32 GMT
My covers are still up and I've watered some plants recently - Marston George. Not grown them before so I don't know if they produce good tubers, so I'll leave them in the ground as long as I can. My reasoning is, the longer I can leave them in the ground, the less time they have to rot etc. Hi Steve, No need to worry about Marston George as it produces good tubers which overwinter well. It also is not shy with regards to sending up plenty of cutting material. It's a cracking variety that doesn't mark up for a very dark colour. I have a sport from it which hopefully will be on the showbench either next year or 2015. |
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Post by Tel on Oct 30, 2013 9:37:03 GMT
My covers are still up and I've watered some plants recently - Marston George. Not grown them before so I don't know if they produce good tubers, so I'll leave them in the ground as long as I can. My reasoning is, the longer I can leave them in the ground, the less time they have to rot etc. Hi Steve, No need to worry about Marston George as it produces good tubers which overwinter well. It also is not shy with regards to sending up plenty of cutting material. It's a cracking variety that doesn't mark up for a very dark colour. I have a sport from it which hopefully will be on the showbench either next year or 2015. How many up would you suggest growing Marston George ? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 17:15:32 GMT
Hi Steve, No need to worry about Marston George as it produces good tubers which overwinter well. It also is not shy with regards to sending up plenty of cutting material. It's a cracking variety that doesn't mark up for a very dark colour. I have a sport from it which hopefully will be on the showbench either next year or 2015. How many up would you suggest growing Marston George I grow mine 8/10 up on a double stop with disbudding limited to the wingbuds and only the next pair down. Any more than that and it goes oversized. I do my first stop late April / Early May when they are still in their pots and the 2nd stop 65 days before the first show. I find there is no need to stagger stop as it provides a constant supply of blooms from there on out. Feeding is limited to Chempack 3 two weeks after planting out and then No 4 only once early to mid August for late August/Early September shows. It either took or was part of numerous winning vases at Wisley and Harrogate, not to mention the Midlands. Another marston - 'Lilac' took some big honours. Dave Spencer raves about it and was part of his min dec championship winning entry at Wisley. |
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Post by Lou78W on Oct 30, 2013 17:56:24 GMT
Marston Lilac?.......a fav of mine.....got a first at our local show with that a few years back....
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Post by Tel on Oct 30, 2013 19:15:17 GMT
How many up would you suggest growing Marston George I grow mine 8/10 up on a double stop with disbudding limited to the wingbuds and only the next pair down. Any more than that and it goes oversized. I do my first stop late April / Early May when they are still in their pots and the 2nd stop 65 days before the first show. I find there is no need to stagger stop as it provides a constant supply of blooms from there on out. Feeding is limited to Chempack 3 two weeks after planting out and then No 4 only once early to mid August for late August/Early September shows. It either took or was part of numerous winning vases at Wisley and Harrogate, not to mention the Midlands. Another marston - 'Lilac' took some big honours. Dave Spencer raves about it and was part of his min dec championship winning entry at Wisley. Thanks for the info, will have to write that down.  |
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Post by steve2t on Oct 31, 2013 20:28:31 GMT
My covers are still up and I've watered some plants recently - Marston George. Not grown them before so I don't know if they produce good tubers, so I'll leave them in the ground as long as I can. My reasoning is, the longer I can leave them in the ground, the less time they have to rot etc. Hi Steve, No need to worry about Marston George as it produces good tubers which overwinter well. It also is not shy with regards to sending up plenty of cutting material. It's a cracking variety that doesn't mark up for a very dark colour. I have a sport from it which hopefully will be on the showbench either next year or 2015. Thanks for that Yes its a cracking flower, I ended up with a few nice blooms of it. I'd be interested in growing the sport off it when it becomes available! ( MG got me a best vase in show this year, but better still a 2nd in the min dec class @ Chipping.) |
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Post by dcdahlia on Nov 3, 2013 17:32:03 GMT
All tubers are lifted and will be kept in the lean to at the allotment for a week to dry out.I will then bring them down to the greenhouse at home next weekend and begin to clean them up.A few varieties have not made good tubers they are leopold chloe,jomanda,vals candy,marston lilac and gateshead festival.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2013 18:34:27 GMT
All tubers are lifted and will be kept in the lean to at the allotment for a week to dry out.I will then bring them down to the greenhouse at home next weekend and begin to clean them up.A few varieties have not made good tubers they are leopold chloe,jomanda,vals candy,marston lilac and gateshead festival. Hi DC. If you are short of decent sized tubers of Jomanda and Val's Candy I can spare a couple of each. Perhaps this would help in light of the Charlie 2 and Hillcrest Divine you were going to let me have. If Phil Watson is coming down to the Midlands awards dinner this Saturday to pick up his trophys then perhaps I can give them to him to take back up to you. PLMK Mark |
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Post by lesley on Nov 10, 2013 18:06:27 GMT
Finished today lifting all my dahlias they've made huge tubers, now labelled and upside down in the greenhouse |
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Post by Tel on Nov 11, 2013 8:03:29 GMT
Finished today lifting all my dahlias they've made huge tubers, now labelled and upside down in the greenhouse The only one's I have not lifted are a few in the garden, they are still in flower, I can only remember one occasion in the last twenty years where they have lasted this long without been killed by frost. |
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Post by steve2t on Nov 11, 2013 17:03:37 GMT
Picked the last of the flowers from under the covers on Sunday. No tubers lifted yet because the ground is too waterlogged.
If the rain doesn't let up, they can stay in the ground! Last years flowers were better quality than this years by quite a margin.
Not many seeds either (single figures) the seed heads just rotted.
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Post by Tel on Nov 11, 2013 19:08:11 GMT
Picked the last of the flowers from under the covers on Sunday. No tubers lifted yet because the ground is too waterlogged. If the rain doesn't let up, they can stay in the ground! Last years flowers were better quality than this years by quite a margin. Not many seeds either (single figures) the seed heads just rotted. [/font] Other way round for me, plenty of seeds this year. Only 30 seeds last year. |
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Post by Tel on Nov 13, 2013 7:58:01 GMT
Just one more dahlia bed to turn over, then that's both allotments done for the winter. |
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Post by snute2008 on Nov 16, 2013 17:32:55 GMT
Hi, dug up the plants but seem to have a problem with Atara Cloud, had 12 plants both my own cuttings and some purchased from Station House - not one single tuber. Also the same problem with Weston Spanish Dancer and Deborahs Kiwi. Any ideas?
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Post by Tel on Nov 16, 2013 17:50:31 GMT
Hi, dug up the plants but seem to have a problem with Atara Cloud, had 12 plants both my own cuttings and some purchased from Station House - not one single tuber. Also the same problem with Weston Spanish Dancer and Deborahs Kiwi. Any ideas? The only thing i can think off is maybe, a lack of water, do you keep any pot tubers or just ground tubers. |
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