Growing Dahlias From Tubers

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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When should you plant dahlia tubers, and what are the best ways to care for them? Jennifer Gulizia, head farmer at The Flowering Farmhouse has a lot of experience growing dahlias. And she has all the information you need to grow your own here! Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Uh7elJ Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3vQsEfW Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Q0hPik EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3JC9VIx Learn More: How to plant, grow, and care for dinnerplate dahliasConnect With Jennifer Gulizia:Jennifer Gulizia, the flower farmer behind The Flowering Farmhouse, is deeply rooted in the small farming town of Hood River, Oregon. As the host of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, Jennifer extends her expertise and passion for growing flowers, sharing insights, stories, and practical tips to inspire budding gardeners and seasoned enthusiasts alike. As a trusted mentor and educator, Jennifer is on a mission to sow seeds of joy and beauty, one blossom at a time. Instagram TikTok Facebook YouTube Website Featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.0	I am officially a Dahlia grower as of last season 2023 and I planted about 50 different types of dahlias but we have quite a master dahlia grower on the show Jennifer Galizia, a flower farmer behind the flowering farmhouse and a dahlia
0:27.6	specialist I guess would be fair to call you right Jennifer?
0:30.3	Sure I would say I'm a d Dahlia cutflower educator so that works. Yeah, perfect. So maybe I'll tell you kind of what I did and you let me know if that was even a good idea. Okay. I got a bunch of tubers from, I believe it was Brex last year and basically
0:48.6	just planted them in this 20 by 20 square foot area of the garden with kind of the clump of tubers with with the stem
0:56.4	sort of facing upwards maybe four to six inches deep and then just kind of just
1:02.4	let those be and they came up and it was actually
1:05.1	incredible last year just insane amount of Dahlia is all the different types you could
1:08.8	imagine and then when the season ended I just cut them back or let them die off and forgot about them.
1:17.2	I don't know if that was even the right thing and maybe we could just kind of go into the general process here.
1:22.1	Sure. Well, growing growing dahlias definitely differs
1:25.4	from growing region to growing region.
1:28.0	They are an incredible flower.
1:30.4	I personally say that everyone should grow dahlias if you can find a space in your
1:35.3	garden grow a dahlia and watch it grow it's amazing so dahlias get planted after
1:42.0	your last season ending after your last season frost date.
1:46.2	So for me, that's May 1st.
1:48.2	So I always use Mother's Day
1:49.9	as a rule of thumb for planting.
1:51.3	So some people in the US are already able to plant, depending on
1:54.8	growing zones they may be waiting for you. You're probably well past your last frostate.
2:01.7	Yeah, we don't have one, technically. So you don't have one technically so you don't have one okay so you are a little bit more
2:06.4	fortunate than me you mentioned leaving yours in the ground where I live you mentioned
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