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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2007 11:20:43 GMT
I have 12 that I have been meaning to plant in pots for a while and still haven't got around to it. Is it too late now?
A few that I planted in borders last year are growing through (fighting against slugs) and I'm wondering if I could grow this batch in their pots and leave them in the pots and just place the pots in the borders? That being the case, what size pot should they live in?
I was thinking of starting them off in 2 Litre pots (I have 2 Litre pots coming out of my ears!)
Thanks.
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Post by Barbara on Jun 5, 2007 18:45:24 GMT
they should be fine
they soon catch up
the bigger the better for dahlias i should say.
barbara
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Post by andy on Jun 6, 2007 4:54:57 GMT
Chuck em in.....dahlias are fairly late flowering anyway so you will probably get a nice show around sept/oct time when everything else has finnished.
Dahlias love lots of water and lots of food so come mid summer, i would be feeding them almost every watering with a half strength liquid feed.
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Post by madonplants on Jun 6, 2007 8:30:15 GMT
How about doing both, 6 in pots and 6 in the garden? If the one in the pots do well, which they should, you can always plunge them into the border. If the ones in the garden fail, you have the ones in the pots for back up. Like Andy said, they are fairly late flowering anyway, so just expect them to be a 'bit' late! What is there to lose?
Keith
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2007 9:40:22 GMT
Thanks for that.
I have a huge patch of "inherited" Crocosmia that I have been thinning and spreading around the garden ... have decided to tidy that stretch up, and dig a bed in front of the Crocosmia and put the Dahlias in there (half & half as suggested above.)
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Post by MamIDdau on Jun 7, 2007 18:41:05 GMT
my dahlias are in flower already. They were only repotted about 6 weeks ago.
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Post by Barbara on Jun 8, 2007 17:10:58 GMT
mine have big buds on, arent we clever  |
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