Dahlia Drama: Fighting the Summer Heat
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2022
- In this video, I share my experiment with shading my dahlias to protect them from the scorching summer heat. As a flower farmer, I've struggled to get my dahlias to bloom properly in the hot weather, so I decided to try something new. Join me as I take you through the process of setting up shade over my dahlias and the results that followed. I also share some tips and tricks on how to care for dahlias during the summer months. So if you're a flower farmer or gardener dealing with the summer heat, this video is a must-watch!
Time for OPERATION SAVE THE DAHLIAS! I've been told I need to provide afternoon shade for these lovely flowers to get them to bloom correctly here in the south. We'll put up the shade cloth, and give it a month or two to see if it makes a difference.
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Here in Australia we know that shadecloth is magic for growing vegetables and flowers in the summer heat. It make a HUGE difference. TIP: If you need to slide shadecloth up and down use steel curtain split rings just a bit bigger than your pipes.
Rowan thank you so much!! that is an amazing tip!!
You did it!!!! I'm doing a happy dance for you :D
Thank you Redsherbet! 😊 i did a happy dance as well when I discovered how well the shade cloth worked. 😂
Yay! I'm so happy for you!
Thanks Candace!
The society of Georgia has a list of heat tolerant dahlias for southern gardeners. They have a website. It's color coded and even includes which dahlias won't open in the center due to heat, which are easiest to grow, etc. It's very helpful :)
Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for the tips! I am attempting to grow dahlias for the first year and I’m also in zone 8b
Best of luck!! They truly are beautiful flowers!
I’m a new gardener in Texas and have fallen in love with dahlias. I was concerned that the heat would be too much but your video has inspired me and I am excited to get started next year
Yes definitely give them a try! There are some you can purchase that are more heat tolerant as well.
I just put shade cloth over my dahlia beds also.Im zone 9b, very hot! Good luck to you!!
You made a great point about the dahlias in the south. I’m in Houston and my dahlias have that yellow center and they look wilted even tho I water everyday. I’m gonna move them around cuz those poor things can’t handle our strong sun.
This gives me so much hope! Im over in monroe and im trying dahlias for the first time this year😬
Just be sure to give them afternoon shade! Best of luck!
I took a class on growing dahlias from a group of northern Florida growers and I’m in 8b southern Alabama. I use grow bags and don’t need to shade them. I’m a hobbyist but have over 75 varieties that I’m growing successfully. I don’t think it’s worth it on a profitability standpoint. I do it because I love it.
Gotta agree with you on the profit side. I guess if you're selling tubers it could be though! But they are beautiful 😍
They are absolutely gorgeous!!!! And I know the ones you have yet to plant will be just as gorgeous.
Thanks Teresa! I'm sure they will be if they get planted. :)
I'm in Troy, AL zone 8 and it is definitely hot. I have three in a flower bed and they all have the blown out centers (I thought that was normal, lol) and three more that haven't bloomed yet in pots. I'm going to try to get them moved to a better location. Thanks so much for sharing! I had no idea!
Some of them are normal to have bright yellow blown out centers. The ones I planted were not suppose to have them. Hopefully they do well in their new location!
I’m in zone 3b, in Alberta Canada, and my Dahlias have started to show the yellow centres. It’s been pretty hot here, like 30 degrees C so perhaps that is why! Thanks for that bit of info!! ;)
Glad I could help Alli!
Yaay they're gorgeous!!! Way to go Jessie!
Thank you Sunnie! 😊 I'll admit I'm very proud of them.
I am impressed with your experimental solution! Wow. So smart!
LOL I don't know about smart but it's something. Thanks Colorado Tullips!
Thanks for sharing this! The open centers are happening with mine too and I had no idea they needed shade either!
Glad I could jelp Rachel!
Love learning as you grow - way better than a zero error tutorial!
Thanks Tiffany!! 😁
So happy you made it:)))) I'd love a couple of them in a vase with their own leaves, so beautiful😍
Thanks Radmila! I've enjoyed a few in a vase in my kitchen. They are so pretty.
Good job Jessie, Love your positive attitude!
Thank you Gilda! 😊
I can't remember the name of the clamps, but you get them at a hardware store to hold things together when building, or glueing things together, they would work to hold the shade cloth on then you only have to roll up the side you want to cut. Third time is the charm.
Omg! That is such a great idea. I'll have to go pick some up. Thank you Ilene. 😊
So excited for you! What a great accomplishment!
Thank you Cristie!! It was a huge goal of mine. :)
Mikayla Miranda is in my garden too. I can't wait to see the beautiful how she is 🙏
She is breath taking! You will love her. :)
Yeyyyyyyy 👏
YOU GO GIRL! 🌼
Thanks Garden Girl! 😁
Thank you so much for this video. I bought my first one this year. From my garden group it came from one of the ladies garden that has successfully grown it for years and it comes back without digging up each year. But mine was suffering and the center looked like your. I just moved it to a little more shade area. Hope it survives. Thanks again.
You are so welcome! I hope it lives. 🙏
Your dahlias look great. Thank you for the education about the shade cloth. This is something I will have to invest in as well, because I live in Florida. Keep up the good work.
I'm glad you found it helpful! I think next year I'll be planting them in an area that gets afternoon shade so I won't have to use the shade cloth next year... maybe.
Rooting you on from the Netherlands! The dahlias look so good 👌☺️
Thank you Mirjam!! I apricate it. :)
Next year try starting them early, you want them to bloom before the extreme heat sets in, they prefer a climate with cool summer nights, for the south that’s more like late spring, they definitely can’t take full sun in the south, next year try planting where they get morning sun
Thanks for the tips!
You can make the zip ties bigger by attaching one to another 🤗
I can’t wait to try dahlias ❤️
I wish I would have thought about that when I was doing the shade cloth 🤣! Dahlias are addictive! They are just so pretty. 😍
Congratulations, Jessie! Your dahlias look great! It is also way too hot to grow dahlias here in California. My dahlias didn’t bloom until late October last year. This year, I took a local flower expert’s advice to grow dahlias in a part-shade corner of the yard. My dahlias aren’t growing as tall as they do in the sun, but they’re blooming in June! I’ll take that! Great to hear about your flower farm successes!
Thanks Brad! I'm so glad you were able to get some dahlia blooms as well. 😀
Oh man!!! I just love you videos. Im laughing soooo hard!! "If you are wanting to learn how to grow dahlias, PLEASE go somewhere else." THE BEST SENTENCE EVER!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This video is a perfect end to my day in the garden, as I FINALLY got the last 87 dahlia tubers (out of 450) in the ground. Im super far behind up here in NH.
I totally needed this video in my life!!!
Lol glad I could make your day! Way to go and get those dahlias in the ground! Want to take a trip down south and finish mine for me? 😅
@@45jessiemad dont temp me!!! My summer vaca starts Saturday morning!!
Although.....im not sure how I feel about all those snakes you have down there. I would FREAK OUT. We don't have scary snakes that kill you up here. Okay...so we technically do have rattlers. But I've never seen one ever in my life.
I have heard that consistently open Dahlia centers means too much nitrogen (if they open to the center right away on the stalk, as opposed to being older blooms)....would be worth adjusting fertilizers! Congrats on the Dahlias!!!!
Oh! I didn't add any nitrogen rich fertilizer to it but that is good to know! Thank you. 😀
@@45jessiemad No problem! I called the experts when I kept getting blown open Dahlia Blooms, and they said it was because we had added compost to our garden (too much Nitrogen). OOPS!!
good luck with the shade cloth, just make sure they get enough airflow
As Rowan says below, in Australia it seems that dahlia exhibitors grow them under shade cloth. I'm just a home gardener but l love, love, love dahlias!
They are just to pretty to not try and grow them. Had no clue people grew them under shade cloth!
@@45jessiemad Once I thought they were difficult to grow but have since found they're not at all. Some tubers I threw out grew on my compost heap & some come up every year on a rock pile on the edge of a gum forest at my place, while some tubers even struggled up after I threw out the rejects from tuber dividing under a tree & subsequently mowed over them.
They're gorgeous!!!! well done!!!! Do you dig them up in the fall or will they overwinter where you're at?
Thanks Brampton Gardener! They can stay in the ground in Louisiana, though I'm thinking of digging them up, dividing, and moving them to an area they can have the shade they need.
@@45jessiemad ohhh that might be good. But wow so lucky they will over winter.
you can always attack 2 zipties together
See, why didn't I think of that!?? Such an easy thing to do, and it never crossed my mind.
They are beautiful. What's the name of the red ? I have 45 diferentes varieties all are from ( Swan island dahlias). I have a new list for next year . I will buy the most productive for next year and I wil put in the compost what don't produce many flowers this year.
Arabian Nights! So far it's been the first to bloom and very productive. :)
I have Karma Choc that looks pretty much the exact same. This is my second year for it an both years it was the first to bloom an produced the most blooms. All my karma chocs are blooming right now in zone 6a.
I will put it in my next year list. Thanks jessie
May I ask where you got your shade cloth and what % shade?
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Thank you Atef!
They are absolutely gorgeous!!!! And I know the ones you have yet to plant will be just as gorgeous.
Thank you Teresa!