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Dahlias 2022 🌼

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2022
    Heartening to see that even English Hertitage gardens are suffering from mildew. I don't know if Kenwood are watering the beds.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Karma Choc is having another flush. Maybe it's the kind of dahlia that is best in the ground and in day long full sun.

     All my dahlia plants have mildew now. :/


  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    edited September 2022
    Not doing too bad now, the mystic illusion looks pretty dead. I'll see if it pops up next year, shame as it was a foot ball size tubar.

  • AthelasAthelas Posts: 946
    Smaller flowers on ‘Embassy’ now that it’s getting cold

    Cambridgeshire, UK
  • HeartinthedirtHeartinthedirt Posts: 300
    Can't remember it's name, got the label in the shed somewhere, but how pretty? Can't believe I had any hand in growing this! 
    It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost
  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    It has taken quite a long time for these dahlias to recover from the heatwave, and the frost will arrive soon.

    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    My dahlias are having a last spurt. I'm happy with how they have done this year.


    I made a garlic spray to try and address all the mildew and much to my amazement, it did seem to work pretty well. It didn't make it go away all together but seems to have reigned it in. I just soaked cloves over night in warm water, whizzed it all up, with the water, seived everything through a cloth (so as to have no bits) and put in a spray bottle  with a bit of washing up liquid (re-used kitchen cleaner spray bottle). I will re-spray the plants weekly until the frosts.

    I would like to trial different feeding regimes of the same dahlias - to see how grandular feed compares against weekly seaweed against tom feed; with one neutral pot receiving nothing but water.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Such a lovely colour!
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    For any really keen dahlia fans in, or willing to travel to, Oxfordshire,  the Dahlia Beach "Dig your own Dahlia Day" tickets are now on sale.
    https://www.dahliabeach.co.uk/service-page/dig-your-own-dahlia-day?referral=service_list_widget
     
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