Planting Out Dahlias In Beds - Melina Fleur, Mystery Fox, Pooh, Sweet Nathalie, Pablo Gallery, Wizard of Oz - June 2025
Five weeks ago, I potted up a number of stored-over-Winter dahlia tubers and a bunch of new-to-us purchased tubers in one-gallon nursery pots . I kept them inside for the month of May and by mid-month many of them were showing signs of life with new growth . As June began, I started to harden off the dahlias with increasing time outside. Eventually, leading to leaving them outside, overnight for a few nights. Then...it was time to plant them. Here's a look at the dahlias we are growing out on the patio getting hardened off: Hardening off dahlias that we started indoors a month earlier. I have planted twenty-one (21) dahlia tubers in six locations. Yes...twenty-one dahlias. EEEK. That's A LOT more than last year. I also gave away three (two Melina Fleur tubers, one Pablo Gallery tuber). And....Left on the patio are some slow-to-start ones. These six *might* come to life, or they might be DOA. This i...