A spoonful of delicious dahlia tidbits dished up for your delight, amusement and curiosity…
MENU OF DAHLIA DISHES…
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All the ways to grow beautiful dahlia blooms… from tubers, cuttings, or seeds? Which way and why? Dahlia Tubers Our #1 choice. Growing dahlias from tubers is the easiest and most reliable way to grow dahlias “true” to variety. This is by far our preferred way to grow dahlias. The benefits: Dahlia Cuttings Our less…
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New to growing dahlias? Wondering when those beautiful tubers need to be unearthed and prepped for winter storage? In Terrace, BC, Canada we start chopping down our dahlias in the first week of October – the season of long shadows and lower temps. Its mid-September when frost can visit anytime to bring an abrupt end…
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When all your friends are happily sharing their first dahlia blooms…its mid-July already and your own dahlias are “taking their sweet time” to bloom …. Why!?! Medeek Meadows Dahlia Seedling ID: 2022-049First Bloom Date: June 28Started early indoors: YesLocale: Terrace, BC, Canada (frost free date approx mid-May, first frost date approx mid-October) “All good things…
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If you have a lot of slugs, you’ll have a lot more slugs if you don’t do anything about it! It was happy hour and I put in a pretty good day! I enjoyed a cold beer in the sunshine and got to thinking… I don’t want to jinx myself by saying this out loud…
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When do you plant your dahlias outside? … or maybe the more common question is – how early can I plant my dahlias?! A good question! The answer(s) depend mostly on where you live and when you expect your last frost. An easy rule of thumb to remember is to plant your dahlia tubers when…
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A name to remember… Berner Oberland, Zundert Mystery Fox, Boom Boom White… often creative, often familiar, and sometimes not so much! Berner Oberland – a beautiful and rather uncommon waterlily variety. The name? Could it be named after a person or a region in Switzerland? I wish I knew! Zundert Mystery Fox – a lovely…
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Confusion in the garden!!! … You’ve carefully labelled all your dahlias, tended them religiously, and endured the long wait and anticipation to see them bloom. As they grow, you admire their foliage and even may be thinking you know which dahlia you’re looking at without checking the label because its foliage is unique… but then…
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NOID? What the heck is a Dahlia NOID? … In short, a NOID is a Dahlia who is well loved, grown and nurtured from year to year, but whose name has been lost, forgotten or never known. A NOID is never a Dahlia destined for the compost heap – NOID is a term only used…
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Sooooo I totally agree, alfalfa sprouts have nothing to do with dahlias! But given that we all have other interests, I thought I’d share one of mine 🙂 … growing our own delicious sprouts for salads and sandwiches! Sprouts are dead easy to grow and and a really affordable way to put healthy food on…
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Preserving Dahlias… So sooooo many of us long to see the beautiful dahlia blooms all year long! Dahlias (in Terrace, BC, Canada) can bloom from June + or – until first frost, but bloom time is highly variable and dependent on the variety and your growing location, growing conditions and weather. The earliest I’ve had…