Dahlia Growing Tips for Early Summer
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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Dahlia Tubers
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. In case you don’t remember
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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 ability to curate our
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How to Make Rooted Dahlia Cuttings at Home
Hey friends! Here is our quick, easy tutorial on how to multiply your dahlias by taking herbaceous cuttings and rooting them. (Don’t miss the important links about how we make dahlia cuttings below the video!) Here are a few links mentioned in the video: HighTop Humidity Domes https://www.growerssupply.com/prod/116039.html Taking cuttings from cuttings/field plants https://triplewrenfarms.com/pinch-your-dahlias-and-use-them-as-mid-season-dahlia-cuttings/ Video of how
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Your Dahlia Tubers Have Arrived!
It’s so exciting to receive new dahlia tubers in the mail. There’s just so much potential for beauty in those little packages when they arrive! Here are a few important things you should do when you receive your dahlia tubers so that you care for them properly. First, open the box immediately to make sure
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Dahlias and Biodiversity
From our earliest farming days, we’ve worked to build a sustainable farm. 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
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Bloomquist Pink Parfait
You can purchase or learn more here: Bloomquist Pink Parfait Dahlia
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Dahlia Tuber Storage Tips
Here at Triple Wren, we get more questions about storing dahlia tubers than any other topic. This can be a hard part of dahlia growing for any gardener, so I wanted to tackle this topic today in hopes that it helps more of our flower friends to find success with their dahlia tuber storage. In
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How to Divide Dahlia Tubers
Are you new to dividing dahlia tubers? Or do you need a refresher since it’s been a year since the last time you divided a tuber clump? We can help! This is a tutorial all about dividing tubers. If you need help with digging, you can find that tutorial here. You can divide tubers in
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How to Store Dahlia Tubers Efficiently
We dig and store our acres of dahlias every fall, but it doesn’t take a huge warehouse or complicated systems for us to do it efficiently. Here’s a look at how one variety breaks down into efficient tuber storage for us here at the farm. Three Most Important Tuber Storage Needs In any tuber storage
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