How to Grow Great Dahlias

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Dahlias have historically been a difficult plant for many to grow, but Rachel grows them because she loves them. It helps that her customers love them too. In this episode, she discusses a few essentials when it comes to growing awesome dahlias. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3PzUO4E Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3RzhZ1C Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3EQZwGr EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3ESTrsZ Learn More: 21 Flowers For The Perfect Fall Cut Flower Garden When To Plant Dahlias: The Best Time Of Year Connect With Rachel Nafis: Rachel Nafis is an urban flower farmer based in San Diego, California. Her urban farm, established in 2019, is composed of 8 different cutting gardens in her neighborhood, where she grows for a 30-member bouquet subscription, flower shops, and event florists. Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, 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 Books Looking 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 Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Allias, a plant that I honestly never really considered growing for quite some time until
0:08.0	this year when we got a special delivery of like dozens of pounds of dolly tubers and
0:16.6	turned the backyard into a mini dolly farm.
0:19.8	So we have Rachel Napis back on the show Urban Flower Farmer based in San Diego, California,
0:24.8	where I'm at.
0:27.3	We were just chatting and you're saying that dollias generally speaking are kind of tricky
0:31.8	to grow.
0:33.9	Yeah, I think they're a challenge because every past, every disease in the garden loves
0:42.6	dollias.
0:43.6	So I think that, and I, you know, we hear I grow, they're a warm season flower, they like
0:49.7	long days and, you know, they can be under significant stress with, you know, hot weather
0:56.7	and all that.
0:58.7	Yeah, maybe we could go through a basic primer on how they grow because it is very odd
1:06.0	compared to most, honestly, most vegetables.
1:08.5	Actually, it's closer to many vegetables than it is to most flowers I've grown at least.
1:13.2	Yeah, so, right, that makes sense because they're grown from a tuber so that almost looks
1:18.4	like a potato that's actually edible.
1:20.6	But they can also be grown from seeds, but if you grow them from a seed, you will not
1:26.2	know the genetics of that dolly, so you won't know if that's really even a viable flower
1:34.5	or the color or the shape or it'll be basically a mystery and a surprise.
1:40.5	So some people like to do that.
1:42.5	I think they're best grown from tubers because you know what you're getting and the tubers
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