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Q&A: Can you split Dahlia tubers when they’ve grown too big? What are the best long-flowering spring plants? How do you put together colour collections?

grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Sarah Raven

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the next Q&A episode for February, where Sarah & Josie answer even more of your questions for a bountiful spring garden! In this episode, we learn how to split Dahlia tubers once they’ve grown extremely large, round up the best flowers for long-lasting beauty throughout the spring, and touch on the ways to create your own complementary collections of flowers. Be sure to leave your questions in comments across social media for Sarah & Josie to answer in a future Q&A ...

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0:00.0

So on to another Dania question, Josie. Can you split tubers when they've grown massive?

0:11.1

And if so, how? This is from Cathy Gleasdell. Yes, you can certainly split your tubers. And if you're a cutflower

0:18.1

grower, you probably grow from new tubers every year.

0:22.1

But if you're a home grower and you've got your tubers in the ground and it's got really huge,

0:27.9

then I would tend to leave it till spring.

0:30.8

So dig the whole huge clump up.

0:33.7

We dug some up, didn't we, a few years ago, and they filled a wheelbarrow.

0:37.1

The one clump filled a wheelbarrow.

0:38.9

They were huge.

0:40.0

Absolutely amazing.

0:41.0

Yeah.

0:41.9

So dig them out of the ground and you'll see stems coming off different sections with tubers on them.

0:49.1

So you just tease those apart.

0:51.7

So long as you've got an eye on the tuber,

0:55.0

which is a bump at the top of the tuber,

0:59.5

then that'll grow into a stem and you'll get a new plant.

1:03.4

So a huge clump could be divided into 20 plants possibly.

1:08.0

And you can also,

1:09.2

you can do it in autumn.

1:10.8

A lot of the growers split their

1:13.2

tubers in, you know, the clumps in autumn. So, but then you've obviously got to store them

1:19.4

over winter. And if they're cut or teased apart, you might damage them in that process. So if you're digging them up any way to store, I would then split them in spring

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