Dahlia Care Tips – Flower Festival in September – Website Now Open for Spring 2025 orders

Dahlia Care – watering, fertilizing, cutting your dahlia flowers for more bloom and farm announcements.

Announcements: Opening Weekend for our Flower Festival is Aug 30-Sept 1st

    Website Now is Now Open for Spring 2025 orders

Water:

Water-Water-Water is the name of the game this time of year, it effects everything about their growth and how well they grow in the garden.  Deep soak your dahlias 2-3 times per week this time of year.  It’s important to water deep enough, to where the water is reaching the 5″-6″ deep to the tuber.  Hand watering is never enough, deep soak with a soaker hose for at least 1 hour in your dahlia bed.   Your dahlias will appreciate some overhead, hand watering as well.  It washes the dust off the leaves and they do absorb water through their leaves as well.  But soaker hoses should be your main way to get water to the tubers.

Fertilize:

The window is closing on fertilizing your dahlias, you don’t want to fertilize after August 15th, as the dahlias won’t have enough time to absorb the fertilizer completely before the fall season.  Fertilize now if you have not already, use a granular fertilizer with a ratio of 5-10-10 or as close to that number as you can find. 

How to Cut your Dahlia Flowers:

2 rules of thumb we follow:  Always cut your flowers in the morning and place directly into a bucket of water.  Cut a stem no shorter than from the tips of your fingers to your elbow, even if you take off the side buds.  The side buds tend to be weaker flowers, the strongest flower will be the center flower.  Cutting yourself a long stem will promote more bloom, sending up 2 new sprouts in place of the one you just cut.  The more you cut dahlias, the more they will bloom.

Upcoming Events and News:

Flower Festival  Opening Weekend is Aug 30-Sept 1, 2024 

HOURS: Fri-Sat-Sunday 10am-3pm – Open every weekend in September through early October

Website is Now Open for Spring 2025!  Here’s some of our favorite dahlias and perennials for the Spring 2025 season!

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