Chicky, if you can pot up and then protect them in the GH you will get a good start. However as you have to wait 'til endish May to actually plant out I would leave it a bit. Start in March?
! pound for a Dahlia tuber,that's a great price,that's about a dollar 80 cents In Canadian. A Dahlia tuber costs 4 dollars and 50 cents here,I think that's 2pounds 70 pence.
yeah its my first year storing tubers now I just have them in buckets in the loft. Our loft is cold in the winter as its ventilated for the trusses in it but doesn't get frosty. So hopefully pretty much ideal storage conditions. The tubers I have at the minute are from ones I have grown from seed. That's one thing I would say If anyone hasn't grow dahlias from seed they are the easiest things I have ever grown and perform really well first year. Thanks for the replys ill have a pop down my local gardening centre.
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Chicky, if you can pot up and then protect them in the GH you will get a good start. However as you have to wait 'til endish May to actually plant out I would leave it a bit. Start in March?
! pound for a Dahlia tuber,that's a great price,that's about a dollar 80 cents In Canadian. A Dahlia tuber costs 4 dollars and 50 cents here,I think that's 2pounds 70 pence.
Bill
Hello Bill, welcome home.... thought about how you were doing . They tell me it has been a bit colder than usual?
yeah its my first year storing tubers now I just have them in buckets in the loft. Our loft is cold in the winter as its ventilated for the trusses in it but doesn't get frosty. So hopefully pretty much ideal storage conditions. The tubers I have at the minute are from ones I have grown from seed. That's one thing I would say If anyone hasn't grow dahlias from seed they are the easiest things I have ever grown and perform really well first year. Thanks for the replys ill have a pop down my local gardening centre.
6 named dahlias £5.65
www.telegraphplants.co.uk/TEP276
Also poundland has got packets of dahlias in at the mo. at .......... £1 each.
thanks ill have a look
Chicky. They grow well from seeds. I grow from seed and also saved tubers.Can't say I've noticed alot of difference between the two.
thanks for the answers - i am planning on giving Bishops children a go from seed this year - might give some of the "free" tubers a go too.
Woodgreen wonderboy the cold has gone for now it was plus 8 today,we have about a week of mild weather coming up.
Bill