Are you growing Dahlias? Tell us about your experiences, good or bad!

Thank you for the advice. Looking forward to seeing your flowers

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jacqui.

Many thanks for sharing and for the tips you give, including feeding.

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ken, your feedback is appreciated.

Gran video

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Yesid

Thank you so much for the excellent video. You answered every question I had . My second year only planting dahlias and getting ready to plant in the next day or so in south central Canada

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment Janet. Good luck with your growing year.

Plants from the Dahlias family associate with mycorrhiza in nature. Some commercial growers add myccorhiza too. Hi from Germany, just subscribed and I am working with mycorrhiza. They don't survive in naked soil and always need a living rhizosphere. Am also cultivating Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius) a relative of Dahlias with my own vermicompost and mycorrhiza. It has edible tubers.

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Katy, thank you for your comment and for subscribing. Oh yes I am an enthusiast in all things Soil Food Web related, including mycorrhizal fungi. We certainly try to follow organic principles, and protect the soil and encourage micro and macro organisms, Also I believe in not leaving the soil bare so that the rhizosphere can develop. Are you are studying mycorrhizae? And if so perhaps you can explain something for me. Is it effective to simply add a collection of mycorrhizal fungi near the roots of a plant at planting time without matching the organism to the plant? It seems to me that if the conditions are right, the fungi will appear naturally and thrive, or am I missing something? Thanks again for your interesting comment.

@katipohl2431

2 жыл бұрын

@@MoorfieldFarmFlowers Thank you for answering. Mycorrhiza need the living roots and undisturbed soil to survive. They get destroyed by tilling and removing/destroying the roots of their plants. Some plants like the brassicae family do not associate with mycorrhiza. Here I inoculate the roots with a mixture of different mycorrhiza when it is planting time. Mycorrhiza do not seem to occur naturally in all soils. In the future I would like to get my own microscope. Greetings from Northern Germany.

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

2 жыл бұрын

@@katipohl2431 How interesting, thanks Kati. Yes I have a microscope and it is great to watch the soil web live in action - from bacteria to nematodes and arthropods, moving right there in a wet sample. Fungi are difficult to see in a wet sample as only fragments are visible, but this indicates a good healthy soil.

@katipohl2431

2 жыл бұрын

@@MoorfieldFarmFlowers Mycorrhiza can be stained with blue colour and seen inside of the root of their plant partner. Rhizophagus intraradices has been photographed living inside the roots of yacon plants. Scientists from Leipzig /Germany published papers about tomatoes and mycorrhiza. Mycorrhiza could not associate with tomato roots when grown in artificial substrates such as hydroponics, peat moss or coconut coir. Tomatoes living with mycorrhiza in soil produced tastier fruits and were able to synthesize special amino acids.

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

2 жыл бұрын

@@katipohl2431 Thank you Kati. Yes we are just at the beginning of our understanding of the vast and important world of micorrhizae and the food web. I suppose you know of the work of Dr Elaine Ingham, the soil web evangelist from the US... kzread.info/dash/bejne/qH2F2dtpiNGfcbg.html (and greetings from Cheshire UK!)

Where do you bring on your dahlias once they come off the heat? I have polycarbonate tunnels. I plan to start them on the propagation bench in my workshop and then move to the tunnels until I can plant out. Last year I put the tubers into the ground unsprouted (was a total rooky). Sorry for the long message.

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

Жыл бұрын

Hi Sheelagh. Yes they will go into the polytunnel. It's a tricky time if there is frost about. For minor cold spells fleece is sufficient but if it gets really cold they have to come indoors (we have outbuildings) with frost protection of some sort.

@sheelaghomalley5459

Жыл бұрын

@Moorfield Farm Flowers That's great. I have lots of fleece. Thank you. Am amazed I got flowers at all last year. Am rewatching your videos. They are so informative. The tubers I lifted had some rotten tubers but I divided and as it turns out the ones I managed to save are so much better quality than the ones I have received from Holland. Looking forward to the follow up from you broken necks experiment.

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

Жыл бұрын

Great! Yes the Dutch tubers are kept purposely small so they are easier to transport. Tubers from the same plant next year will be much better.

What size pot is that?

@MoorfieldFarmFlowers

3 ай бұрын

Hi these are 3 Litre pots (17cm). We use 2L and 3L pots for growing on our dahlias - whichever fits the tuber.