How Do You Win A Garden Growing Contest? Location, Soil, Feeding and Watering. October 2025
How do you win a growing contest? Here's an Instagram Reel from Yuliya from ydoyougarden talking about how she won an Elephant Ear growing contest: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Y Garden - Yuliya (@ydoyougarden) What's her recipe? 1. Location. 5 hours of sunlight. 2. Added manure. Once per month. 3. Fed with liquid fertilizer every two week. 4. Used humic acid booster. To increase uptake. 5. A ton of water. 20 minutes 'slow drip'. Adding a bag of manure *every month* is wild (to me). Food for thought as I think about dahlias next year. And, thinking about the difference between the two Wizard of Oz dahlias , maybe a 'fall task' for the coming months.