I've had 3 stored (inside, in the same place) over-winter and one has failed to come up at all. The tubers look healthy but no signs of life and I've no idea why, that's not happened to me before. If you only bought them this year you might want to return them, it doesn't sound like anything you're doing wrong.
There's a nursery that can get you cuttings, tubers etc. of some amazing Dahlias at a comparable cost to buying only the tuber from a garden centre (the website is poor but the Dahlias are not!). http://www.gilbertsdahlias.co.uk/1.html
That's absolutely horrible, Aym. In the last four evenings I've gathered at least 200 s&s (each time) and took them to the nature reserve. But some of the slugs are quite small and difficult to spot. My dahlias are in pots and I've used copper tape so they're fine, but my asters and sunflowers are suffering. However, I have more seedlings patiently waiting in the shed/greenhouse.
By the way, my dahlias are also showing flower buds, why should I remove them? Will it flower more abundantly?
I really love old-fashioned plants. I suppose it's because its what my great grandmother was planting when I was a child and we were very fond of each other.
I was very gutted that the slugs have eaten all the leaves of my only strawflower plant; I've surrounded the bit that's left with some copper tape and hope it might survive. Strawflower are not popular at all, are they?
You call me sweet, others would call me differently (including myself). I have this horrible highly sensitive nature and I can't seem to be able to do anything without feeling things from a different perspective. Yes, slugs make me frustrated and even angry sometimes, but I know in the great order of things my garden is quite unimportant, my effort to grow that single strawflower in honour of my great grandmother is an insignificant gesture. Slugs and snails follow their simple instincts, in a way they are closer to nature than I could ever be. Still, thank God for slug resistant plants.
Petunia seedlings are very fiddly. 200? Do you have the space? It's so easy to plant much much more than you need (especially when the seeds are that tiny).
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I've planted over 50 this week in a clients garden, the greenhouse was complaining it was too full. I'm knackered .
Hazel --
I've had 3 stored (inside, in the same place) over-winter and one has failed to come up at all. The tubers look healthy but no signs of life and I've no idea why, that's not happened to me before. If you only bought them this year you might want to return them, it doesn't sound like anything you're doing wrong.
There's a nursery that can get you cuttings, tubers etc. of some amazing Dahlias at a comparable cost to buying only the tuber from a garden centre (the website is poor but the Dahlias are not!). http://www.gilbertsdahlias.co.uk/1.html
That's absolutely horrible, Aym. In the last four evenings I've gathered at least 200 s&s (each time) and took them to the nature reserve. But some of the slugs are quite small and difficult to spot. My dahlias are in pots and I've used copper tape so they're fine, but my asters and sunflowers are suffering. However, I have more seedlings patiently waiting in the shed/greenhouse.
By the way, my dahlias are also showing flower buds, why should I remove them? Will it flower more abundantly?
I really love old-fashioned plants. I suppose it's because its what my great grandmother was planting when I was a child and we were very fond of each other.
I was very gutted that the slugs have eaten all the leaves of my only strawflower plant; I've surrounded the bit that's left with some copper tape and hope it might survive. Strawflower are not popular at all, are they?
You call me sweet, others would call me differently (including myself). I have this horrible highly sensitive nature and I can't seem to be able to do anything without feeling things from a different perspective. Yes, slugs make me frustrated and even angry sometimes, but I know in the great order of things my garden is quite unimportant, my effort to grow that single strawflower in honour of my great grandmother is an insignificant gesture. Slugs and snails follow their simple instincts, in a way they are closer to nature than I could ever be. Still, thank God for slug resistant plants.
Petunia seedlings are very fiddly. 200? Do you have the space? It's so easy to plant much much more than you need (especially when the seeds are that tiny).