Potting Up Melina Fleur Dahlia Tubers - May 2024
Back in December, I ordered some Dahlia Tubers from Longfield Gardens and planned to try to both grow them this year AND (importantly) treat them as something that I'll pull out of the ground before the season ends and attempt to over-Winter in my garage. I bought two varieties - Melina Fleur and Cornel Bronze Dahlias . They recently arrived and I decided to start some of them indoors. The Melina Fleur tubers come two-to-a-pack, so I grabbed six one-gallon nursery containers that I had laying around and filled them with a sandy homebrewed potting mix. It is a mix of sand + potting mix that I normally use for succulents. Here, below, is a photo of the Longfield Gardens dahlia tuber packaging that lists some specs (18" apart, 32" tall). After potting them up, I brought them down to the basement in the window well. This is south-facing and while it *is* the basement, they get good light down there. I put them on some trays that I had laying around and watered them in.