Mine are slow this year, even being potted up early on. I looked through photos from last year and I'd planted them in their outdoor pots already by this time. At least 2 weeks away from that just now.
Mine have been out for a couple of weeks. They seem fine. Growing like rockets. The only problem is that I have run out of compost. Again? Where does it all go - so many tonnes? I never throw it out. Surely my whole garden should be about four higher than when I started eight years ago?
Well, mine have survived their first night outdoors in fine style- no probs at all. I’ll leave them out now and plant them in their final positions this weekend.
@Fire - I thought exactly the same thing the other day! I have some dahlias already planted in their big pot and sprouting nicely, another left in its pot over winter beginning to sprout, some now out of the shed in their temporary pots which I've started watering, some planted directly into the ground a week ago and some others left in the ground - none of the ones in the ground are doing anything yet. A decent spell of sunshine after all this rain will get everything going like billyo!
I planted mine out yesterday (into a fairly sheltered raised bed), then checked the weather... the predicted hail storm came with full gusto! Glad I protected them with cloches just before... Other young leaves on veg etc were torn to shreds...
I planted mine out into pots a couple of weeks ago after over wintering in the garage. Two of them are beginning to sprout, and I hope the other won't be long in joining them. The begonias which I left out in their pots over the winter are beginning to shoot, too.(I wasn't sure if they'd survive the cold spell we had in February, but some seem to have).
Uggh. I thought the spot I had my five Dahlias in was reasonably well sheltered from the worst of the weather (I’m close to the sea so can get a nasty east wind accompanied by storms sometimes). Turns out I was wrong and woke this morning to 3 of them coping with the ongoing storm quite well, one with the bottom two “branches” of leaves broken off the main shoot, and one that has just flopped off to the side- it doesn’t seem to have snapped. I’ve moved the casualties to an even more sheltered spot and will get a proper look later. Hopefully they can be ok.
Can you use them as cuttings for new plants? If they are still attached, maybe graft them together with gaffa tape? I've done it with tomato plants with great secess
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I have some dahlias already planted in their big pot and sprouting nicely, another left in its pot over winter beginning to sprout, some now out of the shed in their temporary pots which I've started watering, some planted directly into the ground a week ago and some others left in the ground - none of the ones in the ground are doing anything yet. A decent spell of sunshine after all this rain will get everything going like billyo!