Dahlias 2012 season

Well i do hope that Scrumpy was having a April Fool post.

My cuttings have rooted

Get the key to my new allotment in the morning

I might put a few dahlias in tel ;D.There is a great lean too on the new garden 16 feet by 14 feet.I've been tidying it up and it was like xmas morning.All sorts of stuff been left,2 gas heaters, 3 parrafin heaters,4 foot by 2 foot propagator,roll of clear plastic,2 rolls of black plastic,roll of netting, 2 rolls of bubble wrap and numerous pots and trays of all sizes I was quite excited. Going back up later to cut a whole in the fence between the 2 gardens

Cleared the majority of my tubers now. One or two varieties still got a few cuttings to take, mainly the ones i ordered in as pot tubers....Candlelight, Gillwood Terry G, Oakwood Goldcest.

Now starting to pot on the early cuttings to keep as pot tubers.
Don't usually bother keeping many for such, but as i'm growing more varieties, but fewer of each, thought i'd keep at least 4 of each variety as back up.

Have got a glut of certain varieties, Ruskin Andrea, Ruskin Bride, Winholme Diane, and plenty of all the others, so should have a good choice for selection this year. Some of the Ruskin Bride are even showing flower buds

Is that all

Received cuttings from station house today ruskin myra and gurtla twilight,the ruskin myra were big cuttings with 5 pairs of leaves and were going to be to early so I cut them back to 3 pairs of leaves and used what I cut off as cutting material. That way I get 10 later plants and will use the original 10 as pot tubers and will also get breaks from the 3 pairs of leaves I left on each plant so I could get a possible 60 other plants.