Here’s how to take care of your dahlias in the early summer before they bloom, but after they’ve started growing.
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THROUGH DAHLIA EDUCATION
• the latest from Triple Wren •
Sharing beauty
THROUGH DAHLIA EDUCATION
• the latest from Triple Wren •
How To Grow Beautiful Dahlias
We want you to grow the most beautiful dahlias you've ever had! Here are links to all of the blog articles we've written about how to successfully grow dahlias. How to Plant Dahlia Tubers Healthy Soil is the Key to Healthy Dahlias How Much Space Do Dahlias Need? How...
How to Pinch Dahlias
What is “pinching” a dahlia? Pinching a dahlia is simply removing the top portion of your dahlias plant right above a node. You can do this with your fingers or a pair of snips. We pinch our dahlias when plants are about 8”-12” tall and it doesn’t hurt the plant at...
How to Water Dahlias
Looking for information about how to water your dahlias? We can help! Keep reading to find out all about how to successfully water your dahlias. Wait to Water Until Dahlias Start Sprouting Did you know that dahlia tubers don’t absorb water? Their feeder roots absorb...
Our Favorite Annual Flowers for Increasing Biodiversity
Every year, we co-plant thousands of beautiful annuals in our dahlia fields! We plant them between the dahlia varieties, often blocking them by color (so fun!), which gives us a “hard stop” between dahlia varieties at harvest time. Not only are the annual flowers...
How Much Space Do Dahlias Need?
How you space dahlias in your garden is important. If you give them too much space, you won’t be able to fit as many dahlias into your garden. If you space them too closely, they might not have enough room to grow and disease might plague your dahlias because of lack...
Our Favorite Foliage Plants for Biodiversity
Our first days of learning to farm were spent in a beautiful apple orchard. It was a gift in so many ways, and we learned so much about farming a monocrop on acres and acres of land. One big lesson we learned was that the primary crop was happier and healthier when we...
Crop Rotation, Field Rest, and Biodiversity
This is the 9th year we've grown dahlias in the big front field on our own farm. We grew them at another location for 5 years before that, and in both locations we've done a few things to keep our dahlia healthy and to avoid treating them like a mono-crop. We've...
How to Plant Dahlia Tubers
Are you new to planting dahlias? Let us show you how we do it at Triple Wren! Despite being a large scale grower, all our dahlias are lovingly prepared and planted by hand. This lets us keep our literal fingers on the pulse of our dahlias’ health and gives us the...