Q&A: When should I mulch dahlias? What should I cut back into autumn? When should I start forcing scented bulbs? Is it too soon for bulb planting?

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Welcome to the September Q&A episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, where Sarah & Josie answer questions sent in by our lovely listeners each month. In this episode, Sarah shares the ideal time to mulch your dahlias and how best to tackle the task, and when to start working on forced, scented bulbs ready for Christmas. Meanwhile, Josie picks up questions on deciding what to cut back and what to leave on the way into autumn, plus how to spot the ideal time to start planting o...

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0:29.4	to discover even more.
0:35.9	Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today, because we're doing the garden Q&A for September, I'm joined by Josie Lewis, our head gardener.
0:47.7	Welcome, Josie.
0:48.8	Hello.
0:49.4	So we've been sent in various questions for September, and I'm going to start with the first one
0:55.8	which is when is the time to mulch dailias so we're in September I mean I know in the north
1:00.9	frosts aren't that far away if you live at a higher altitude too but we actually don't tend to
1:07.4	march cut down and march our daily as until the end of November, even into
1:11.0	December. The person who wrote in with the question said they've always lifted them, but
1:15.9	they're thinking this year they might try leaving them in. Honestly, both Josie and I would
1:20.9	passionately urge you to leave them in, but you have to mulch them really deeply. And what I mean
1:26.4	by deeply is upturning a whole bucket of
1:28.8	mulch. What do you use? Well, you could use fine bark chippings or we use our own compost or you could
1:36.7	use green waste, you know, pretty much anything. But the point is it's like putting extra togs of your
1:42.0	duvet on as it gets cold in the winter, they need to be protected
1:45.6	from the frost. And so as soon as the tops are blackened, cut the stems back to about
1:52.7	sort of 10 centimetres from the ground, put a whacking great label so you know which is which
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