Well here goes.....gonna uncover my one and only dahlia tuber I stored. Ha! I'm grateful for this video, Laura; it removes my trepidation. And immediately I cracked up when you said: "For crying out loud....." Everyone, plant those tubers and pray over them. Giving thanks for inspiration, for learning, and for bountiful outcomes! Happy Gardening!
I never thought I'd want to be bothered growing something that required so much care (lifting, storing, dividing), but here I am, babying my one tuber (Emory Paul).
Last year was my first year growing Dahlia’s and wintering them over. I put them in cardboard boxes [with holes] with wood shavings [very messy]. I only checked on them once because I over filled the boxes and it was too messy and difficult to check on every single tuber. As a result I lost 4 but the others survived so I divided them up [got 25]. It’s also too cold at nights here in Ontario until this weekend [fingers crossed] so I potted up all the surviving tubers into old pots from last year with some slightly moistened triple mix soil and put them by a south facing window back in late april. Over half of them are 3-8 inches tall already. Looks like I’m ahead of the game this year. I’m very excited! Thank you so much for the videos, they have been a big help on my gardening journey this past year!
Aside from your amazing gardening knowledge and talents Laura (I'm a huge fan), I want to give a shout out to Aaron for his amazing video skills. He is extremely talented! Every time I watch your videos I am amazed. Never boring, never drawn out, entertaining and professionally done! Kudos Aaron!
Thank you for providing such clear, easy to follow instructions! It makes a novice gardener, like myself, feel like I can 'up my gardening game' by saving and dividing the tubers with a lot of guidance from you.
After 30 years of gardening thought I was an experienced gardener. Ha! I'm amazed how much I've learned since watching this channel. I am definitely taking better care of new trees and other plants I've recently acquired. (Is it any wonder why I have to remove trees planted 20 years ago.)
Colorblends warehouse is in CT where I live! 🤩 ordered tulip bulbs from them for the first time after hearing you mention them and I had such great results!! Your videos have given me such great success in my garden!!! I appreciate the time you put into creating these video and the education you give!!! Everything you recommend actually works!!! Thank you thank you!!! Wish you could come see my garden!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Only a true gardener can see the beauty in those gnarly tubers. 😆 I laughed out loud when Laura said, "in case I don't get them planted right away." You have more than a thousand tubers! Of course it'll take time to plant all of those.
Many years ago, on your first proven winners giveaway I won! And I got me some Dahlias. I loved them but didn’t know much about them. I ended up losing them, and now that I think about it “I might had over water them”. Wish I could go help you plant some on of those gladiolus, love getting my hands in the dirt. Separating,propagating, dividing just make me so happy to do!!! Free plants, and who doesn’t have time for Free plants!!! Happy Mother’s Day Laura!
Good Morning! One day I’ll plant dahlias with the goal of lifting and storing them for replanting. I’m in the gathering information stage. This video is part of the quest.
@@verawallace9055 I totally understand! I have neighbor who faithfully planted dahlias every spring and the show was spectacular....he died this April. So I thought I’d carry in the tradition in his honor.
it's actually a good thing Cheddar is doing.. we save our German shepherds hair every fall and plant it in our tulip holes and it keeps gophers and rabbits away!
I look forward to ur videos everyday w a cup of coffee and my little potted garden. Thank u for inspiring me and helping me w my depression. Planting flowers even if they don't grow. Is so relaxing. So thank u for all ur hard work and videos.
With the ongoing changes and revamps to the property as a whole, I thought it’d be cool if Aaron could document it via drone footage. From the lawn trenches to the new property taking shape. The old wonky sidewalk being replaced by new pathways that match. Lol It would be an awesome timelapse video at the end of the year to show all the progress, even if it’s still a work in progress. Even once a month coverage would likely show huge changes at the rate ur planting new trees...and of course, the much anticipated Hartley. 😍 Happy for you all and am enjoying watching and learning as you grow.
Ciao Laura, 2 suggestions: Whay don't you put a mulch between rows of Dalias and everything that you put in the ground in the veggie garden to suppress the weds?! And why didn't you put gravel instead mulch trough the walkways of the veggie garden? I'm watching your channel for the last 4-5 years. You are simply THE BEST! BETTER THAN ALL THE REST! 😉 ❤️ From Montenegro! 😘😘😘
I planted 8 dahlia plants from tubers a couple weeks ago! 🥰 They are all growing up and I can’t wait to see them! All inspired by watching your amazing videos!! ❤️❤️❤️
Laura, thanks to you, My spring trip number one to the plant nursery was so much more successful. I can recognize plant names, know which ones I want for different areas because of all I have learned from watching you. I was thrilled to find their proven winners section and loaded up on Rockin Blue suede shoes salvia and many other familiar plants!! Thankyou!
Oh well done Laura, they really did well. So important for all of us to grow as many of our plants for the next season as possible from a sustainability point of view. Worth mentioning that if anyone have any slightly dessicated tubers it's worth putting them in a bucket of water to rehydrate before planting, pretty much the same principle when dealing with bare root plants.
@@tamararobinson2069 not if it's overnight, they will absorb moisture which is what they're lacking. Otherwise you can plant them as are but give them extra water. Slightly shriveled ones tend to do well, despite their looks.
😳Wow!!! That is a ton of bulbs! 🎉Did you mean to have this many? It’s going to be gorgeous! Do you ever get overwhelmed where you just decide “wait!- let me give some away” just to avoid so much work 😂 I know this gives you joy- but I think we need to give you either a winter vacation or pay for a helper besides Paul and Aaron 🥰 Our pure enjoyment! Thank you 🌸
Do you ever plan a Spring project the previous Fall, then come Spring think, "Oh man what did I get myself into???" I know the end results are worth the work, but even watching it sped up made me tired 😄
I just bought my first dahlia so the tuber is probably pretty small, but I am excited about what I will find in the fall and yes I will try storing it too. I just spent a winter with a paper bag of gladiolus tubers in my fridge, lol. They are in good shape.
This is a really amazing process to me. I've never planted tubers as I've always lived in really hot climates and never thought the plants did well. I've had several die here in Southern CA. But I do have one that survived and comes back faithfully tevery year, It grows about 6' tall and 3'wide with dinner plate yellow blooms. But it may be lonely. I keep saying I need to get more dahlias!
I love Dahlias, one of my favorite episode, it reminds me of so many gardens I’ve visited with Dahlias. I so enjoyed watching you divide the tubers, and I actually learned something new. Your Dahlia garden will look so dramatic when they bloom, can’t wait for that.
Your friends and family are in for a beautiful garden surprise! Most of my gardens over the years were with shared plants and bulbs and flowers from neighbors and friends. That's the fun of gardening, sharing the knowledge and the plants and seeds. I've even gathered seeds off marigolds at McDonald's! LOL.😂 Love the information Laura. Can't wait to see what's happening now in the yard! Saw the Facebook post yesterday! The City came through! So excited!
Appreciate the detail on how you add amendment to soil and mentioning that you'll just pour it around for now. Sounds like when you actually place them, you'll stir up the space a bit and I will look carefully for that video. Thanks for the detail! Good luck!!!
☕️I’m beginning to feel like the laziest gardener on earth watching Laura plant those beautiful dahlias. I can just picture them all ... now to get motivated ... after this cup . LOL. Thank you again from my heart, Laura! 🧚🏻♂️🌷💕
I was so excited to watch this video for the 1st time 3 minutes after it posted. I didn’t have time to comment then. Can’t believe just a few hours later 45,000+ views. 😊😊👏👏. I learned a lot watching this video. I’ve planted a few dahlia tubers the past few years. I’m upping my total this year and growing many you recommended . 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸♥️♥️♥️😊
Is Russell on vacation and now Cheddar is supervising? LoL 🤣!! I finally listened to you Laura and ordered a pair of Felco 2 hand pruner. Best money I ever spent. They are certainly worth the price. I have used them already to trim my 24 shrub roses. I'm in central AL. Each rose bush had at least 100 rose flowers on them so I feel trimming all the dead heads off was a good test of the Felcos. No hand fatigue and they cut everything like butter. I tried to order them last year but they were out of stock probably due to covid-19 closing factories and shipping down. Thanks for always telling us to use Felcos as they are the best cutting tool for gardening.
Wow look at all those beauties! If you want a bigger more mature looking plant is it really necessary to divide the tubers? Can you just clean them up and remove any broken tubers and divide in half if it’s a really big bunch? Y’all are amazing thank you so much for everything you and Aaron do. I’ve been a gardener all my life. I have such fond memories of gardening when small with all four of my grandparents. I have lung disease and have been on oxygen since 2012 and my gardening is very limited now to containers on my porch. So being able to watch your channel really feeds and soothes my soul. Love watching those beautiful babies and your kitties as well. My granddaughter is a moth older than Benjamin.
I potted my one tuber back in early April. I took it outside for the first time on Sunday to get acquainted with natural light. Still too cold outside to plant in the ground.
Good morning. Love this video. I can’t wait to get my Dahlia collection started. You are such a great teacher. Can you reuse that vermiculite the roots are stored in? Do you buy it in bags for that project or by the truck load? Looking forward to seeing the garden this year 👏
My sister in law uses a linoleum knife to cut tuber clumps for dividing. It’s a short, curved blade you can find inexpensively at the hardware store... you may want to try it next year!
That would do me in. I don't know how you do everything you do. It is like I put in our new irrigation system in the 25' of garden space we have. I done me in. Between doing three rows in a 12' sections longways then placing the overhead spouts in their places. I was stiff before I finished the drip system on the porch. It took me 7 hrs to get it all done. I don't know how Laura does it all the way she does. I wish I had half the energy to get things done the way she does. I think she bottles it up from Benjamin and uses it. LoL!
Great video today full of such good advice Laura. I got a few tips of you today on separate the tubes. Your such a lovely person to and you put a Ray of sunshine in to everybody's day.
Good morning, Laura ☕️ Man, is that a ton of work?!! Question, in regards to the Gladiolas, do you plant them weekly so they have different blooms times or, do you plant them all at once? Will you be planting any Dahlias in pots? I’m so excited to see them all blooming! 😍 Have a Blessed Day. 😊🐈
Haha I planted my dahlia this year for the first time from a Costco pack. I looking for a well to jump in for the way I cut and split the roots. This is by far the clearest video I watched of the spreading and cutting tubers. Thank you !!
So excited for this video. I stored my dahlias in my basement and they are looking good. I'm ready to plant this week so your video was perfect timing. Stated with 10 plants, Divided into 40. Thanks, Laura. 🌻🌷🌻🌷 Floret Flowers book on Dahlias is excellent.
Everything I've done with my dahlia tubers has been wrong so it will be a miracle if any have survived the Winter. I stored them in a basket in the greenhouse then early Spring put them in buckets of soil outside. They're cold, wet & nothing happening. I'm going to dig them out, wash them off, divide & plant them again in some nice compost outside to get going if possible. At least now I know how to store them properly for next Winter time. If these ones are dead I'll buy some fresh ones & begin again, now I know how to do it thanks to this video.
Seems I did everything wrong according to this video when I planted my dahlias yets they persevered! They are about 12 inches tall with great foliage and a nice thick stem. Good thing plants are very resilient and forgiving of human error. Keeps us encourage and allows us to live to plant another season! Thanks for all the videos.
You make it look so easy 😉 I stored the tubers for the first time this year and although they ended up being quite large I was so scared to divide them that I planted them as they were. Next year I’m definitely going to try to divide them. Thanks for the tutorial 👍🏻
I noticed that you wrote directly on the tubers to label them. Did you use just a regular sharpie marker or a garden marker? And does it stay through the growing season or do you just remember what was planted? I can’t wait to see all these glorious flowers 🌸🤍
Hello Hannah, I hope Laura gets to answer this question, but if she doesn’t get to it, another youtube channel suggested using an indelible ink pencil, as opposed to a sharpie, as it will fade. In an older Garden Answer video, Laura uses the Garden Markers on the plastic tags which she said she picked up from the Garden Centre. I hope this helps you.
I planted 5 dahlias last year, only 2 for some reason grew and bloomed. I also did not dig them up, and those 2 came back this year (zone 7a, right on the cusp). Watching that exhausted me lol. I’ll keep treating mine as annuals. I need to KISS (Keep it simple, Stephanie!). 💕
My dahlia tubers are always quite dessicated at the end of winter but I've never lost one. I plant them all and they all bloom just fine. Maybe you could try to plant the dessicated tubers and see if they come back for you (but ok, you might have enough already haha)
I'm growing a variety of dahlia for the first time (Emory Paul) and am thinking of trying the plastic wrap method of tuber storage this fall. I attempted growing dahlias when I first began gardening 30 years ago, but knew nothing back then. I dug up the tubers, but short of storing them in my basement did nothing to promote their viability. This was pre Internet. 😜
Amazing video. So so useful. We’re in a dryish part of inland South Africa. I have inherited hundreds of dahlia plants (now died down as it’s our winter) and so feel that I need to learn how to care for this amazing crop. I appreciate all your tips. You’re excellent at this. Very inspiring. Love from good old sunny 🌞 RSA
Here in Uk i’m a first time dahlia grower and after your video, I understand a lot more. I was staggered at how they flowered. We haven’t had first frosts but when I lift them, I hope to have more tubers like you and now know how to divide them. Thank you.
looks like you still have pumpkin and squash leftover from last growing season! Do they taste as good at this point? You still using them in recipes? Thanks for all the inspiration always! You inspired me to start my own youtube channel and now I get to geek out about gardening with my online gardening friends! 🤗🌱
Well my goodness you have a LOT of tubers! Yes, that’s crazy how they multiplied. But it’s wonderful, too! I can’t wait to see the glorious stand of those flowers. They are all so beautiful. Tfs. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
Wish I was your family or friend 😁. Probably the first time I don't envy you, dividing so many dahlias 😅. Can't wait to see them all in full bloom, it's going to be gorgeous!
Thank you for all of this information! I ordered some dahlia tubers for the first time from Eden Brothers. Some of them were pretty sad looking, and I don’t think I planted them correctly. 😱 Despite all of that, I have 3 of the 5 coming up! Yay! Obviously, a much smaller scaled operation than yours! 🙂 Thanks again for all of the information and inspiration! 🌷
Did you store the glads the same way as the dahlia with slightly dampened vermiculite? Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿 And...Need to add that this is the best detailed tuber video ever! Thankyou!!
So, I left my dahlias in the ground this year. They're all back! 😊 So, I really want to grow more this year. You convinced me to grow these. Loved the video! ❤
@@nellanddudley I'm growing my first tubers in pots at the moment, soon to go into the ground in northern Delaware (zone 7a). I'm planning to leave them in the ground and see if they return next spring...your comment gives me a bit more faith that the tubers will survive.
Hi Laura, I've been watching your channel for a while now, I love all of your videos. Quick question if I may. Where do you get your Dahlia tubers from? I am thinking of ordering some from Eden Brothers. Would you recommend them? Thanks a bunch.
Dividing twelve or more crates of dahlia tubers would be one of those rare times that I don't envy Laura.
Lol 😅
Yes, I think I would have quit half-way and re-started another day (or two)!
This is why I treat my dahlias as annuals (and I don’t have near as many!).
@@GardenKath I didn’t even know they have tubers! 🤦🏼♀️
Yes, that is a daunting task!
Well here goes.....gonna uncover my one and only dahlia tuber I stored. Ha! I'm grateful for this video, Laura; it removes my trepidation. And immediately I cracked up when you said: "For crying out loud....." Everyone, plant those tubers and pray over them. Giving thanks for inspiration, for learning, and for bountiful outcomes! Happy Gardening!
Annnnd? How did it look?!😊
Haha as I attempt my first dahlia...one bulb...... in a pot! Well inspiration is inspiration..... small or large!
I did two in the garden last year and they were gorgeous 😊. Doing a few more. Laura inspired me of course 😹.
I never thought I'd want to be bothered growing something that required so much care (lifting, storing, dividing), but here I am, babying my one tuber (Emory Paul).
😂 So true! I’ve never been a fan until I saw Laura’s so I’m growing 4 tubers this year which is hilarious after watching this video.
Last year was my first year growing Dahlia’s and wintering them over. I put them in cardboard boxes [with holes] with wood shavings [very messy]. I only checked on them once because I over filled the boxes and it was too messy and difficult to check on every single tuber. As a result I lost 4 but the others survived so I divided them up [got 25].
It’s also too cold at nights here in Ontario until this weekend [fingers crossed] so I potted up all the surviving tubers into old pots from last year with some slightly moistened triple mix soil and put them by a south facing window back in late april. Over half of them are 3-8 inches tall already. Looks like I’m ahead of the game this year. I’m very excited!
Thank you so much for the videos, they have been a big help on my gardening journey this past year!
Good morning everyone!!! What a beautiful day with Laura & my coffee!!☕️☕️
Good morning ☕⚘
☕️Good Morning☕️
Good morning!
Aside from your amazing gardening knowledge and talents Laura (I'm a huge fan), I want to give a shout out to Aaron for his amazing video skills. He is extremely talented! Every time I watch your videos I am amazed. Never boring, never drawn out, entertaining and professionally done! Kudos Aaron!
I love how you store your DeWalt tools. Can you do a little video on how you hang all of your equipment?
Yes, please. Barn tour.
Here you go Aaron, a good video for you to talk in.
@@n.w.414, 😆
Thank you for providing such clear, easy to follow instructions! It makes a novice gardener, like myself, feel like I can 'up my gardening game' by saving and dividing the tubers with a lot of guidance from you.
After 30 years of gardening thought I was an experienced gardener. Ha!
I'm amazed how much I've learned since watching this channel.
I am definitely taking better care of new trees and other plants I've recently acquired. (Is it any wonder why I have to remove trees planted 20 years ago.)
I just love how no matter where you are your kitties are right by you! Momma!
I don’t even have dahlias and I watched the whole video and learned something. I just ❤️ all your videos.
Colorblends warehouse is in CT where I live! 🤩 ordered tulip bulbs from them for the first time after hearing you mention them and I had such great results!! Your videos have given me such great success in my garden!!! I appreciate the time you put into creating these video and the education you give!!! Everything you recommend actually works!!! Thank you thank you!!! Wish you could come see my garden!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Caribou coffee and Garden Answer...good start to the day for all of us !!
Next year you should totally pick 5-10 subscribers and send them some tubers!! Omg we would LOOOVVE to grow something that came from your garden!
I think that is a great idea, who wouldn’t love to have some tubers and seeds from Laura’s garden! Me! Me! Me! 🌺🌼🌸
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I love when you admit to making mistakes. It’s humbling because we sure make a lot of mistakes here too.
No one can say you ever shy away from work. Much Respect here!
Will you do a video about pinching the Dahlias? How it’s done and when to do that? Can’t wait to see all you flowers grown.
Only a true gardener can see the beauty in those gnarly tubers. 😆
I laughed out loud when Laura said, "in case I don't get them planted right away." You have more than a thousand tubers! Of course it'll take time to plant all of those.
Thank you so much for showing us how you do this. I have had my Dahlias 20 plus years and never dig them up, but I do want to start to separate them 😁
288 holes prepared for the Dahlias! WOW! The cut flower garden is going to be GORGEOUS when in bloom!
Many years ago, on your first proven winners giveaway I won! And I got me some Dahlias. I loved them but didn’t know much about them. I ended up losing them, and now that I think about it “I might had over water them”. Wish I could go help you plant some on of those gladiolus, love getting my hands in the dirt. Separating,propagating, dividing just make me so happy to do!!! Free plants, and who doesn’t have time for Free plants!!! Happy Mother’s Day Laura!
Good Morning! One day I’ll plant dahlias with the goal of lifting and storing them for replanting. I’m in the gathering information stage. This video is part of the quest.
Good luck, I don't even try lol
@@verawallace9055 I totally understand! I have neighbor who faithfully planted dahlias every spring and the show was spectacular....he died this April. So I thought I’d carry in the tradition in his honor.
@@seedrootsprouts2290 Wow, am Sorry to hear, that's very nice of you, May he RIP 😇
@@verawallace9055 🙏🏽thank you.
it's actually a good thing Cheddar is doing.. we save our German shepherds hair every fall and plant it in our tulip holes and it keeps gophers and rabbits away!
I look forward to ur videos everyday w a cup of coffee and my little potted garden. Thank u for inspiring me and helping me w my depression. Planting flowers even if they don't grow. Is so relaxing. So thank u for all ur hard work and videos.
With the ongoing changes and revamps to the property as a whole, I thought it’d be cool if Aaron could document it via drone footage. From the lawn trenches to the new property taking shape. The old wonky sidewalk being replaced by new pathways that match. Lol It would be an awesome timelapse video at the end of the year to show all the progress, even if it’s still a work in progress. Even once a month coverage would likely show huge changes at the rate ur planting new trees...and of course, the much anticipated Hartley. 😍 Happy for you all and am enjoying watching and learning as you grow.
Ciao Laura, 2 suggestions: Whay don't you put a mulch between rows of Dalias and everything that you put in the ground in the veggie garden to suppress the weds?! And why didn't you put gravel instead mulch trough the walkways of the veggie garden?
I'm watching your channel for the last 4-5 years. You are simply THE BEST! BETTER THAN ALL THE REST! 😉 ❤️ From Montenegro! 😘😘😘
That! Was a workload!! Thinking 280 holes and tubers left over... wow 😅 its going to be glorious though 🤩
I planted 8 dahlia plants from tubers a couple weeks ago! 🥰 They are all growing up and I can’t wait to see them! All inspired by watching your amazing videos!! ❤️❤️❤️
Good morning Everyone and Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🌞
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@@ElderandOakFarm Good Morning Candace Dear 🌿💚🌿
Thanks for this amazing and informative video. Super helpful ❤
Laura, thanks to you, My spring trip number one to the plant nursery was so much more successful. I can recognize plant names, know which ones I want for different areas because of all I have learned from watching you. I was thrilled to find their proven winners section and loaded up on Rockin Blue suede shoes salvia and many other familiar plants!! Thankyou!
Oh my word! Look at all those tubers divided!!! Just think - come Fall, those will multiply into many more for next year! Gonna be beautiful. 💕☀️🪴
Oh well done Laura, they really did well. So important for all of us to grow as many of our plants for the next season as possible from a sustainability point of view. Worth mentioning that if anyone have any slightly dessicated tubers it's worth putting them in a bucket of water to rehydrate before planting, pretty much the same principle when dealing with bare root plants.
Wouldn’t they rot?
@@tamararobinson2069 not if it's overnight, they will absorb moisture which is what they're lacking. Otherwise you can plant them as are but give them extra water. Slightly shriveled ones tend to do well, despite their looks.
Awesome! Thank you so much for the info!!👍🏼
😳Wow!!! That is a ton of bulbs! 🎉Did you mean to have this many? It’s going to be gorgeous! Do you ever get overwhelmed where you just decide “wait!- let me give some away” just to avoid so much work 😂
I know this gives you joy- but I think we need to give you either a winter vacation or pay for a helper besides Paul and Aaron 🥰
Our pure enjoyment! Thank you 🌸
Do you ever plan a Spring project the previous Fall, then come Spring think, "Oh man what did I get myself into???" I know the end results are worth the work, but even watching it sped up made me tired 😄
I do LOL
I just bought my first dahlia so the tuber is probably pretty small, but I am excited about what I will find in the fall and yes I will try storing it too. I just spent a winter with a paper bag of gladiolus tubers in my fridge, lol. They are in good shape.
This is a really amazing process to me. I've never planted tubers as I've always lived in really hot climates and never thought the plants did well. I've had several die here in Southern CA. But I do have one that survived and comes back faithfully tevery year, It grows about 6' tall and 3'wide with dinner plate yellow blooms. But it may be lonely. I keep saying I need to get more dahlias!
I love Dahlias, one of my favorite episode, it reminds me of so many gardens I’ve visited with Dahlias. I so enjoyed watching you divide the tubers, and I actually learned something new. Your Dahlia garden will look so dramatic when they bloom, can’t wait for that.
Your friends and family are in for a beautiful garden surprise! Most of my gardens over the years were with shared plants and bulbs and flowers from neighbors and friends. That's the fun of gardening, sharing the knowledge and the plants and seeds. I've even gathered seeds off marigolds at McDonald's! LOL.😂 Love the information Laura. Can't wait to see what's happening now in the yard! Saw the Facebook post yesterday! The City came through! So excited!
You may have convinced me to try planting dahlias. They are going to be gorgeous!
Clever planning on using the wind to your dahlias benefit!! Looking forward to seeing them grow and provide beauty.
I stored mine in my shed in the netting bags that onions, oranges and avocados come in.
The tubers look great and I planted them this weekend.
Appreciate the detail on how you add amendment to soil and mentioning that you'll just pour it around for now. Sounds like when you actually place them, you'll stir up the space a bit and I will look carefully for that video. Thanks for the detail! Good luck!!!
Good morning all cofee and my favorite gardener and her family a great start to my day😊💐
Your root cellar is awesome! I would love to build one of those in the future! Love it ... more food preservation and yummy treats all year long!
☕️I’m beginning to feel like the laziest gardener on earth watching Laura plant those beautiful dahlias. I can just picture them all ... now to get motivated ... after this cup . LOL. Thank you again from my heart, Laura! 🧚🏻♂️🌷💕
Lol Dee! My pea sized yard is all I can handle and even at that, I’m not always motivated😅 some how I do manage to get er done though.
Cloudy with rain in the forecast here in central Alabama, so this was an enjoyable start to my day...of course!🌼
How have I been watching you ALL THIS TIME and didn't know you had GLADS?! 😲🤣💜
Good evening from Brisbane, Australia 😊
Who here wishes they were Laura’s real life friend who got to have extra tubers, bulbs, etc?? 🙋♀️😍
I was so excited to watch this video for the 1st time 3 minutes after it posted. I didn’t have time to comment then. Can’t believe just a few hours later 45,000+ views. 😊😊👏👏. I learned a lot watching this video. I’ve planted a few dahlia tubers the past few years. I’m upping my total this year and growing many you recommended . 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸♥️♥️♥️😊
I got Erin’s Discovering Dahlias for Mother’s Day. It is full of helpful, easy to follow instructions. Great resource and the photos are incredible!
Those Labyrinth dahlias are beautiful 😍 Can't wait to see more dahlia content!
I can’t wait to see mine bloom ❤
Is Russell on vacation and now Cheddar is supervising? LoL 🤣!!
I finally listened to you Laura and ordered a pair of Felco 2 hand pruner. Best money I ever spent. They are certainly worth the price. I have used them already to trim my 24 shrub roses. I'm in central AL. Each rose bush had at least 100 rose flowers on them so I feel trimming all the dead heads off was a good test of the Felcos. No hand fatigue and they cut everything like butter. I tried to order them last year but they were out of stock probably due to covid-19 closing factories and shipping down. Thanks for always telling us to use Felcos as they are the best cutting tool for gardening.
Wow look at all those beauties! If you want a bigger more mature looking plant is it really necessary to divide the tubers? Can you just clean them up and remove any broken tubers and divide in half if it’s a really big bunch? Y’all are amazing thank you so much for everything you and Aaron do. I’ve been a gardener all my life. I have such fond memories of gardening when small with all four of my grandparents. I have lung disease and have been on oxygen since 2012 and my gardening is very limited now to containers on my porch. So being able to watch your channel really feeds and soothes my soul. Love watching those beautiful babies and your kitties as well. My granddaughter is a moth older than Benjamin.
That is an awesome amount of dahlia tubers, looks like dahlias are trying to take over the world!
Good Morning Friends!!!! Speaking of Dahlias, I currently have mine in pots waiting for warmer weather!!!
Same!
Me too!
Mine are growing like crazy in greenhouse
I potted my one tuber back in early April. I took it outside for the first time on Sunday to get acquainted with natural light. Still too cold outside to plant in the ground.
@@lauraduchek5080 oh that’s Awesome! 🤗We don’t have a greenhouse, but would so appreciate one. Hopefully someday!
Good morning. Love this video. I can’t wait to get my Dahlia collection started. You are such a great teacher. Can you reuse that vermiculite the roots are stored in? Do you buy it in bags for that project or by the truck load? Looking forward to seeing the garden this year 👏
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My sister in law uses a linoleum knife to cut tuber clumps for dividing. It’s a short, curved blade you can find inexpensively at the hardware store... you may want to try it next year!
Wow those Felco 2 are amazing!
I treated myself to a pair😁 All because of Laura💚🌸🌿
Thanks so much for the education. I planted my first dahlia garden this year after watching yours last year. Love watching your videos!
Growing dahlia patch for first time this year. So exciting!
That would do me in. I don't know how you do everything you do. It is like I put in our new irrigation system in the 25' of garden space we have. I done me in. Between doing three rows in a 12' sections longways then placing the overhead spouts in their places. I was stiff before I finished the drip system on the porch. It took me 7 hrs to get it all done. I don't know how Laura does it all the way she does. I wish I had half the energy to get things done the way she does. I think she bottles it up from Benjamin and uses it. LoL!
Wow that’s a job! Cant wait to see them in bloom!
Great video today full of such good advice Laura. I got a few tips of you today on separate the tubes. Your such a lovely person to and you put a Ray of sunshine in to everybody's day.
Grass is all i wanna see in your new property!!😍😍😍
Good morning, Laura ☕️
Man, is that a ton of work?!! Question, in regards to the Gladiolas, do you plant them weekly so they have different blooms times or, do you plant them all at once? Will you be planting any Dahlias in pots? I’m so excited to see them all blooming! 😍 Have a Blessed Day. 😊🐈
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Can't believe those not so attractive tubers produce such gorgeous dahlias. Can't wait to see them in bloom.
Haha I planted my dahlia this year for the first time from a Costco pack. I looking for a well to jump in for the way I cut and split the roots. This is by far the clearest video I watched of the spreading and cutting tubers. Thank you !!
So excited for this video. I stored my dahlias in my basement and they are looking good. I'm ready to plant this week so your video was perfect timing. Stated with 10 plants, Divided into 40. Thanks, Laura. 🌻🌷🌻🌷 Floret Flowers book on Dahlias is excellent.
Everything I've done with my dahlia tubers has been wrong so it will be a miracle if any have survived the Winter. I stored them in a basket in the greenhouse then early Spring put them in buckets of soil outside. They're cold, wet & nothing happening. I'm going to dig them out, wash them off, divide & plant them again in some nice compost outside to get going if possible. At least now I know how to store them properly for next Winter time. If these ones are dead I'll buy some fresh ones & begin again, now I know how to do it thanks to this video.
Seems I did everything wrong according to this video when I planted my dahlias yets they persevered! They are about 12 inches tall with great foliage and a nice thick stem. Good thing plants are very resilient and forgiving of human error. Keeps us encourage and allows us to live to plant another season! Thanks for all the videos.
You make it look so easy 😉 I stored the tubers for the first time this year and although they ended up being quite large I was so scared to divide them that I planted them as they were. Next year I’m definitely going to try to divide them. Thanks for the tutorial 👍🏻
Been stalking your channel waiting for dahlia content. What a nice video to start the day with. ☕️ 🌸
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I noticed that you wrote directly on the tubers to label them. Did you use just a regular sharpie marker or a garden marker? And does it stay through the growing season or do you just remember what was planted? I can’t wait to see all these glorious flowers 🌸🤍
Good questions! I hope they pick yours for answering later.
Hello Hannah, I hope Laura gets to answer this question, but if she doesn’t get to it, another youtube channel suggested using an indelible ink pencil, as opposed to a sharpie, as it will fade.
In an older Garden Answer video, Laura uses the Garden Markers on the plastic tags which she said she picked up from the Garden Centre.
I hope this helps you.
This is so helpful! I am planting today. Your stored tubers much healthier than the ones I bought and ordered online. I'm learning!
You are truly a machine Laura!
I planted 5 dahlias last year, only 2 for some reason grew and bloomed. I also did not dig them up, and those 2 came back this year (zone 7a, right on the cusp). Watching that exhausted me lol. I’ll keep treating mine as annuals. I need to KISS (Keep it simple, Stephanie!). 💕
Saw the pruner and had to say, that thing is like a hot knife through butter with tree limbs!
My dahlia tubers are always quite dessicated at the end of winter but I've never lost one. I plant them all and they all bloom just fine. Maybe you could try to plant the dessicated tubers and see if they come back for you (but ok, you might have enough already haha)
I'm growing a variety of dahlia for the first time (Emory Paul) and am thinking of trying the plastic wrap method of tuber storage this fall.
I attempted growing dahlias when I first began gardening 30 years ago, but knew nothing back then. I dug up the tubers, but short of storing them in my basement did nothing to promote their viability. This was pre Internet. 😜
Does one tuber have multiple eyes, therefore, producing multiple flowers? Please, and thank you!
Amazing video. So so useful. We’re in a dryish part of inland South Africa. I have inherited hundreds of dahlia plants (now died down as it’s our winter) and so feel that I need to learn how to care for this amazing crop. I appreciate all your tips. You’re excellent at this. Very inspiring. Love from good old sunny 🌞 RSA
Here in Uk i’m a first time dahlia grower and after your video, I understand a lot more. I was staggered at how they flowered. We haven’t had first frosts but when I lift them, I hope to have more tubers like you and now know how to divide them. Thank you.
looks like you still have pumpkin and squash leftover from last growing season! Do they taste as good at this point? You still using them in recipes? Thanks for all the inspiration always! You inspired me to start my own youtube channel and now I get to geek out about gardening with my online gardening friends! 🤗🌱
Thanks for everything for dahlia . To plant dahlias my favorite Flowers .
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Sweet. Loved it. Longer videos please. Can’t get enough of you guy’s. Thank you so very much for sharing.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I should have looked up how to divide dahlias before I did it. Well, now I know that they have eyes and that they are needed to grow.
Well my goodness you have a LOT of tubers! Yes, that’s crazy how they multiplied. But it’s wonderful, too! I can’t wait to see the glorious stand of those flowers. They are all so beautiful. Tfs. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
Wow!! Your tubers looked terrific coming out of storage. I sent away for tubers and they didn't look like yours!! Bravo!
Wish I was your family or friend 😁. Probably the first time I don't envy you, dividing so many dahlias 😅. Can't wait to see them all in full bloom, it's going to be gorgeous!
Thank you for all of this information! I ordered some dahlia tubers for the first time from Eden Brothers. Some of them were pretty sad looking, and I don’t think I planted them correctly. 😱 Despite all of that, I have 3 of the 5 coming up! Yay! Obviously, a much smaller scaled operation than yours! 🙂 Thanks again for all of the information and inspiration! 🌷
I got 2 sweet Natalie can’t wait to see it bloom
Did you store the glads the same way as the dahlia with slightly dampened vermiculite? Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿 And...Need to add that this is the best detailed tuber video ever! Thankyou!!
So, I left my dahlias in the ground this year. They're all back! 😊 So, I really want to grow more this year. You convinced me to grow these. Loved the video! ❤
Lucky you! What zone are you in?
@@aksileb Zone 7b, southern Maryland. They are protected from north winds and are on the south side of my house.
@@nellanddudley I'm growing my first tubers in pots at the moment, soon to go into the ground in northern Delaware (zone 7a). I'm planning to leave them in the ground and see if they return next spring...your comment gives me a bit more faith that the tubers will survive.
@@plot10homestead58 Mulch heavily! Good luck!!
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Hi Laura great video on dividing the dahlias. Can you please tell me where to buy the labelling tags?
Hi Laura, I've been watching your channel for a while now, I love all of your videos. Quick question if I may. Where do you get your Dahlia tubers from? I am thinking of ordering some from Eden Brothers. Would you recommend them? Thanks a bunch.
Excellent video with details and closeups! Also love the idea of using a sharpie to label it on the tuber itself.