When to start dahlia tubers
How to start Dahlia tubers
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so after being on social media recently
we're talking with all things data as I
do so someone was on pint-sized gardener
and she's saying she tried a dated last
year at no success even by slugs and I
was only this year that uh she was
talking to people in social media she
said oh start them off and pots didn't
know you could do that what a great idea
so I have a lot of my day is actually in
pots and the various stages of sprouting
so we're put on down to garden center
and the gosh add a youtuber just to do a
wee demonstration this one is called
Moulin Rouge and you can see it's a
lovely red and white looks nice isn't
100 centimetres in height but that's
about waist height for us just about now
it is late for doing two tuberous stages
but it's not too late and you can see
this one is actually sprouting in the
bag you can see that little chute there
so as I plant this let's see if I can
orientate dot shoot just a little bit I
don't to break it but just a little bit
descended in the right direction that's
the top of the plant and that's
obviously the roots themselves so
parting it on to look for a pot I don't
feel reasonably snugly into I have a
variety of sizes here you can choose
from
that's probably just a little bit tight
so go for the bigger five-year pot so
compost is always the mixture topsoil
save top soil and compost and I've some
grit in there as well and of course the
odd snail just to make life interesting
of course they look dailies only and for
this for the posh the way I put the
compass in the pot you can see it there
and I hope is where it is I sort of have
a little mound in the middle this will
fit over the man's so - you don't have
to do that it's a good way of making
sure that the soil is in underneath the
tubers
so something along that sort of lines
and then just fill in around giving it a
good shake as I hope just I don't want
any air pockets in widows tuberous roots
art and the good watering then will
finish and remove the soil in alright
fully wanted
that's the thing about when you're doing
them a little bit later and it's a
pretty sprout you know that one's going
off in a certain direction but that's
okay that's okay it'll write itself and
if I want I can get a little cane and
pop a little cane out I'm not sure that
I will I see let's see at the moment I'm
just quite happy to have a puppet and
that's the way to start your day is off
rather than in the soil it's simple as
that into a nice sheltered area and I
have the greenhouse here behind me but
any sort of nice sunny patio and I think
by July maybe mid July because for this
one they'll be full of these flowers of
course if you're doing the alias and you
have a few different ones
always good
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always got to make sure that you're
labeling so you can tell one from the
other one side there you go you can see
it's nicely shooting your way there and
that one there have some even taller
softer shoots so once there's four
periods of leaves four pairs of these
guys showing red that height I'll pinch
out and let it push up okay thanks for
watching talk to you soon bye
