a y b s a i l h a D r e n e d r a g rookie Cara Addison @gardening.with.cara I’ve only been in my garden for one full year and as a newbie gardener I wanted instant colour and drama for my first Summer. I had watched an episode of one of the many gardening shows and saw someone with dahlias in their garden and immediately I knew I had to have some. Knowing absolutely nothing about them I spent the next weeks furiously googling how to grow them and proceeded to order about 10 different varieties of dahlia from small to dinner plate size!
Starting them off I had to do a lot of googling and watching videos on what to do next. When the alienlooking tubers arrived in March I quickly found the best method to starting them off. Planting them in 3L pots of compost and giving them a little water. I watched those pots like a hawk! I was absolutely delighted when most of them woke up.
Planting out When the time came for planting the out, I soon realised I didn’t have enough space in my newly dug raised bed for all the dahlias, so pots came in handy! Once they were all planted out in the beds and pots, I kept up watering and feeding them with a liquid feed and lo and behold I got my first flower in late July!
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