Planting Dahlias
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Dahlias are a must have for the summer border or patio display. They can flower until Autumn and have a wide range of interesting varieties, all with very showy flower shapes and rich colour shades.
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0:05 hi I'm Hannah and I work for J Parkers
0:07 today I'm going to talk to you about
0:08 dahlias so dailies are incredible
0:10 flowers and they will flower all summer
0:12 long as long as you keep deadhead in
0:13 them
Lifting your Dahlias
0:16
what do you do in the Autumn when they
0:18 start to die back so I thought I'd
0:21 explain to you how you should lift them
0:22 and store them over winter so
0:25 when they start to die back all the
0:28 foliage will start to go yellow and
0:30 it'll all sort of fall over after it's
0:33 done that it's important to then lift
0:36 them but if you do it too soon there
0:38 won't be enough nutrient that's been
0:40 brought back into the tuber and your
0:42 dailies won't be as good next year so
0:44 you need to wait for that to happen
0:45 before you lift them and so what you can
0:47 do is cut all of the of this year's
0:49 growth off lift them out of the ground
0:53 and then you need to store them so the
Storing your Dahlias
0:55
best place to store them is in a cool
0:57 dark place like a shed or a garage and
1:00 you need to allow them to completely dry
1:03 out so it's recommended that you either
Keeping your Dahlias dry
1:05
store them in paper bags and to keep any
1:08 moisture out or big tubs filled with
1:12 sawdust and I know that a lot of the big
1:13 Gardens will will do it that way and
1:16 because it stops any moisture getting
1:17 into the tuber and you don't want them
1:18 to rotter rot off over winter it's also
1:21 important that your shed or garage is
1:24 frost free if it isn't that will kill
1:26 them over the winter
Summary
1:28
so as I say cool dark place and keep
1:32 them completely dark and throughout
1:34 winter and then in the spring as soon as
1:35 the frost is passed you can then replant
1:38 them and then you should have dahlias
1:39 coming up over the summer
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