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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 15:01:15 GMT
Has anybody got any advice... What do you think about hand digging it   .... Answers on a postcard please!!!! Can you send me a stamp for the postcard @markymate I am skint. It's in the post Tel, plus a little extra, for a slice of your luck |
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Post by ian on Feb 1, 2015 15:04:50 GMT
Mark get as many plants as you can in 44 sounds goo to me in long rows
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Post by dcdahlia on Feb 1, 2015 15:34:34 GMT
All varieties apart from jomanda now showing signs of life,still early days but if I get nothing off jomanda I am gonna try another small ball sick of buying jomanda back in.I will be taking first cuttings in a week or two's time.Had my 2 months off from the allotment I never go up in December and January.I will start up there next weekend weather permitting and it won,t be long before its light enough on a night to go up after work.
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Post by cici on Feb 1, 2015 16:18:44 GMT
Cici we are all aloud or opinions welcome aboard?  , This is your forum, and I am an out-of-town guest. Your original comment had me laughing, and didn't realize my cheerful counterpoint would offend. I will be a silent reader again rather then speak and offend. My apologies. EDITED TO SAY... I was over-sensitive to intruding on a non-American forum, and mistook his comment as negative. It was not intended that way, and was a bit of mistyping ONLY. Unfortunately, it caused a flurry of negative posts by folks defending me when no defense was needed. I feel very welcome by this forum's members, Ian and I are friendly, and PLEASE don't comment anymore in this misunderstanding. Let's talk dahlias instead, shall we?  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 16:42:07 GMT
Cici we are all aloud or opinions welcome aboard? , This is your forum, and I am an out-of-town guest. Your original comment had me laughing, and didn't realize my cheerful counterpoint would offend. I will be a silent reader again rather then speak and offend. My apologies. Cici, I think what Ian was saying, was that everybody's opinions are welcome on the forum. That's how we like it on here, and I'm sure no offence was taken. Please feel free to post, it's great having you on here, with an American perspective on the flower we all love  .
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Post by Tel on Feb 1, 2015 17:09:06 GMT
You continue to contribute to the forum cici, you have not offended anyone. We all have our own opinions, on our flower. It maybe a British forum, but we welcome members to the forum from which ever Country they come from. |
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Post by ste b on Feb 1, 2015 17:14:24 GMT
Mark did not take you long to learn the petal trick hehe, Ian will help and give advice to anyone at the shows he's one of good guys in the dahlia world, but everyone at Harrogate will help a novis so don't think your on your own. The mini ball class at Harrogate don't no who judged it but they got it spot on, 1 st 51 and half pts 2 nd 50 pts 3 48 and half pts, the lad who finished second had a great vase of Blayton lady in red but it was marked at the back it was a shame he only got 14 pts for that vase or he would have won. Your plot get rid of them raised beds, skim top off and then dig it over , Mark meter long beds and meter paths sounds wide path but you need the room to work on your plants. You're not wrong there Steve, he's an all round top bloke... but don't tell him I said that . Mike Walsh, was supposed to be head judge, but he was late, so Ian called in Phil, didn't get his surname, but a really nice bloke, wore glasses and a trilby hat. Les from Hartlepool, and Neville from Weybridge, made up the rest of the team. I must be honest, I was so concentrating on not dropping a vase, and putting the right cards with the right exhibits, and generally not cocking up, some of the day just flashed past. But to me, they got it right, and worked well as a team, and you can't ask for more than that. I'm going to get rid of the boards and hand dig and weed( can't think where I got that idea from ). Going to make a start tomorrow, so I've got plenty of time before planting in May. If the bed is divided into 1metre strips, would that mean getting 4 plants to a square metre for miniatures and balls, giving me a bed of 44 plants? Or would 6 per metre, be better..
I space 20 or 22 inches for miniatures 44 in a row sounds ok easier to work on and water and spray. I've been digging over to day now am ready for dinner. |
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Post by Lou78W on Feb 1, 2015 17:43:29 GMT
Cici we are all aloud or opinions welcome aboard? , This is your forum, and I am an out-of-town guest. Your original comment had me laughing, and didn't realize my cheerful counterpoint would offend. I will be a silent reader again rather then speak and offend. My apologies. Woah!!!....you certainly did not offend!!....please stay and join in!...some don't express themselves very well....we pride ourselves on being a friendly and informative forum. We love dahlias......you love dahlias.....I can't think of a better combination.... |
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Post by Tel on Feb 1, 2015 17:47:34 GMT
All varieties apart from jomanda now showing signs of life,still early days but if I get nothing off jomanda I am gonna try another small ball sick of buying jomanda back in.I will be taking first cuttings in a week or two's time.Had my 2 months off from the allotment I never go up in December and January.I will start up there next weekend weather permitting and it won,t be long before its light enough on a night to go up after work. Most of my tubers from last year are showing life, the exception is Mary's Jomanda. Then there is the 3 varieties of collerette I bought, but they have not been set up 2 mins. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 18:00:40 GMT
You're not wrong there Steve, he's an all round top bloke... but don't tell him I said that . Mike Walsh, was supposed to be head judge, but he was late, so Ian called in Phil, didn't get his surname, but a really nice bloke, wore glasses and a trilby hat. Les from Hartlepool, and Neville from Weybridge, made up the rest of the team. I must be honest, I was so concentrating on not dropping a vase, and putting the right cards with the right exhibits, and generally not cocking up, some of the day just flashed past. But to me, they got it right, and worked well as a team, and you can't ask for more than that. I'm going to get rid of the boards and hand dig and weed( can't think where I got that idea from ). Going to make a start tomorrow, so I've got plenty of time before planting in May. If the bed is divided into 1metre strips, would that mean getting 4 plants to a square metre for miniatures and balls, giving me a bed of 44 plants? Or would 6 per metre, be better..
I space 20 or 22 inches for miniatures 44 in a row sounds ok easier to work on and water and spray. I've been digging over to day now am ready for dinner. That sounds spot on, how I worked it out. Smalls, slightly more and so on, Steve, I guess. Have a beer as well, sounds like you deserve it |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 18:02:09 GMT
This is your forum, and I am an out-of-town guest. Your original comment had me laughing, and didn't realize my cheerful counterpoint would offend. I will be a silent reader again rather then speak and offend. My apologies. Woah!!!....you certainly did not offend!!....please stay and join in!...some don't express themselves very well....we pride ourselves on being a friendly and informative forum. We love dahlias......you love dahlias.....I can't think of a better combination.... Couldn't have put it better Lou |
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Post by Raymond on Feb 1, 2015 18:26:39 GMT
cici you did not offend anyone. Delighted you have joined the forum. Please keeping posting. I like many of the USA dahlias very much and its great to have an opinion from across the pond. Have been told I should move there ! Hahaha Thanks for the picture of parkland rave. I like it and the person I got it from loves it. Let's see how it does for me. Heard the tubers not easy to keep but mine looks fine at the moment. Can I ask how many blooms per flush to make bb or our small size here ? I need to have a change around was laying out my display and beds on the computer last night far to many pink dahlias ! Oops ! Hehe
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Post by cici on Feb 1, 2015 20:59:35 GMT
Thanks for the picture of parkland rave. I like it and the person I got it from loves it. Let's see how it does for me. Heard the tubers not easy to keep but mine looks fine at the moment. Can I ask how many blooms per flush to make bb or our small size here ? I will be trying it again this season, as my two traded tubers rotted out on my lighting racks last spring. Interesting that you heard that about the tubers- obviously, I had that issue, but haven't heard it from anyone over here. The precise way that growers in Britain have each cultivar's growth formula fascinates me. Folks I talk to here don't go in such detail, and the advanced show growers don't seem to want to divulge such information, if they keep track of it at all. Your Dave Spencer wrote an article for our 'Dahlias of Today' magazine last year, and he wowed me with exact information on how to grow specific cultivars. I've talked with US show folk about lateral management, stopping and disbudding, and have practiced all to some degree in my own dahlia beds, but such specifics was really enlightening. Ruskin Andrea is one that I really enjoyed two seasons back, but by the time the shows came around, they were all bloomed out and didn't make it through storage. Looking forward to getting it back, and hope to try the specific instruction for it that was given pages back on this forum thread. |
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Post by Raymond on Feb 1, 2015 21:20:51 GMT
hi cici I am going for my first year showing. So much to learn and practise it is scary. People such as ian, tel, dcdahlia, scrumpy , iank on here and many many others are some of the top growers in the uk. I am lucky enough to be a member of the same dahlia society as Dave Spencer . A truly passionate show man With a huge knowledge on dahlias. Gained many useful tips from him and others in my society and also from the great growers on here. One of my friends grows 300 + dahlias purely for garden display and he supplied me with parkland rave. It is one of his favourite, early flowering and non stop. He does not show so I will have to take a punt on how to grow it. He always keeps pot tubers of parkland rave as he has had problems with this and Stillwater brilliant for example. I stored parkland rave in vermiculite and so far so good. I will email a couple of us dahlia suppliers and kindly ask if the can give me some info on her. Got the info I need for Clearview Sundance, Clearview Debby and also Stillwater brilliant from the parshalls. A very nice Email and also from accent dahlias as growing AC Abby as well. is that your dahlia display in your avatar ? Would love to see some pictures ! Looking amazing |
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Post by derekbrooks on Feb 1, 2015 21:46:25 GMT
My tubers are a bit slower to start growing than usual. There are 7 growing at present and this time last year there were 10 or 11. There are some cuttings on Sir Alf ready for taking. One that is growing is Zoe that Scrumpy sent me. I had lost this variety so he kindly sent me another tuber.
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