To optimize natural light exposure in a greenhouse, consider factors like size, shape, and orientation. Zone planning is another important aspect, as it allows for better management and tailored care for different plant varieties. By considering different types of greenhouse designs and their pros and cons, you can choose the ideal layout that fits your requirements and sets.
Organize your greenhouse space efficiently by dividing it into functional zones based on plant types, growth stages, or environmental needs. This will allow for better management and tailored care for different plant varieties. Consider a potting area, a storage area, and separate areas for edible and non-edible plants to keep things you use regularly in one place.
A well-organized greenhouse can significantly enhance productivity and ensure the health of your plants. Consider a potting area, a storage area, and separate areas for edible and non-edible plants to save time and effort. For perennials, dig up the parent plant, remove loose dirt around the roots, and separate the plant.
Greenhouse growing begins with covering the plants, providing them with better, more consistent conditions. Use a garden fork to gently lift plants out of the ground and ensure you can see the roots by shaking off the soil. Greenhouse partitions enable you to create two different environments within the same greenhouse, tailoring conditions to the needs of your plants.
📹 How to Divide Big Dahlia Tubers Easily
Learn the basics of dividing dahlia tubers and how to divide big dahlia tubers (that may not be as intuitive). Want to learn more …
📹 Dividing and Repotting Sarracenia | Winter Tasks in the Greenhouse
This video shows how to divide and repot Sarracenia plants during the winter. The presenter demonstrates the process using a Sarracenia ‘Tiger’ plant, explaining how to separate the rhizomes and pot them individually. They also discuss the importance of using the right potting mix and pot size for each division.
Yes, I was going to say one of the best dahlia dividing articles I’ve watched! Thank you for being so clear and showing easy to hard clumps. I still leave my clumps too big. Now I gotta go watch how you dig and store. We dig, wash, divide, air dry for a couple of days (probably not enough) and store in labeled paper bags. I got mildew the last 2 years, but they grew anyway luckily.
This was so helpful – thank you! And it totally made me feel better that some of your tuber pieces just fell off because I was stressing when some of mine did, thinking I must have not been careful enough or something. So seeing that you absolutely know what you are doing, and it happened to you too, helped.
This article was very helpful. A neighbor gave a dahlia to a friend of mine, we didn’t know what to do with them. I planted them in the ground without cutting all the necks! There were 3 clusters and 2 of them came up, one of them did not make it. Local people say they don’t have to be dug up every winter so I left them in the ground, it probably does need to be broken up into smaller sections this spring. I had no idea about being careful for the crown and eye parts. I’m glad I looked at other people doing this instead of trying to merely wing it.
Hi Evelyn. My name is Geoff, I grow dahlias in my garden in Manchester, U.K. My wife and I have been making a article diary throughout 2021 and we are now about to make episode 16, when we will show how we store our tubers for winter. Now, we don’t divide our tubers up into chicken legs in the way that you do, but I understand why your method is a good one, especially for people with limited storage space, and also for sellers in the USA where tubers have to be posted long distances. Would you mind if I talked about your article (which is the best I’ve seen on the subject) in my next article please? I would also put a link in the comments field if that’s okay. Geoff
Evelyn, thank you! It’s been already mentioned (may times 😃) how how incredibly informative and helpful this article was. I greatly appreciated you mentioning that tubers with cuts or critter chomping are still viable if the neck and crown with eyes are still intact. I had removed all my tubers that had the ends cut off, 😕. Glad to know I can keep them.
Thanks for this great article. I like how you showed some of the tougher tuber clusters to divide. You are really good at it! I would love to see more about your storage methods. I lost most of my tubers last year because I divided them in the fall and they shrivelled. I’m going to try to keep them intact until the spring this year. I wish I hadn’t washed them but I’ll see how it goes this winter and I will check on them a few times and maybe mist them if they get too dry. Thanks again for a good article 🙂
That was a great, informative article, thank you. I would have liked to see how you divided up the big tuber into all the smaller ones but that was put on fast forward so we could not see. I know you showed earlier in the article but would have been good to see lots more examples. I have about 20 very large tuber bunches so need all the help I can get!
Thank you so much, your article made alot of sense. I know now how to divide my dahlia Uber clumps and appreciate you taking the time to point out the anatomy before you dived into dividing up. I would love to see a article on how a home gardener without a greenhouse and without a cold frame and with a small house, can pre spout the tubers in the spring in a flat or something in the house before planting out. My typical last frost date is late May.
Thanks for this article! It’s a lot easier to understand and see the considerations when splitting. I am very interested in your article on storing dahlias, since I noticed you weren’t cleaning them all as much as other people seem to. I like that you’re more ‘this one is damaged but it might grow still’ about it, since a lot of other info seems to be ‘cut off anything damaged because it might rot’… and I am more okay with living life on the edge and trying out the riskier tubers.
Hello Evelyn from Yorkshire in the UK: I am an old guy but a newish gardener, dahlias are one of my favourite plants. I learned so much from this article, thank you very much. One thing I wasn’t sure of is whether splitting should be done before winter storage or in the spring? Given that you cleaned a couple of the tubers I suspect this was done before?? George
This article helped a lot. But I have few doubts… I live in a hot climate, where it is not necessary to take the tubers out to store. But when I want to divide them, should I first let them dry after taking out or I can start splitting already? Other question is that how long the tubers need to stay out before replanting them? Hopefully you have doubt to answer 😊
Thank you for your article…very interesting 👌 I have received my dahlia tubers which is wrapped in brown paper. Do I leave it in a cool place until I need to plant in Spring. I am from South Africa and it is our summer season now….would you kindly advise me as to what to do next with the tubers …
I am liking your suggestion to treat dahlias like annuals. I lifted my dahlias this year as I didn’t want to lose them to rain and cold in Zone 8. I feel like a bouncing ball. I put them outside in a cardboard box. Then the temp is freezing and I bring them into our 60 degree plus garage. I can’t give them a steady temp. I keep them moist and they look good but now the tubers have sprouts. Maybe they will be OK if they are outside and temp is above 28 degrees? Please advise.
Thank you. It would have been nice for you to slowly divide at the end and not speed it up and to point the camera on what you were doing so we could actually see and get more experience with giant clusters and spend less time talking about tools. was very informative though. Please post a dahlia presprouting percentage article on the percentage of dahlias you split and how many sprouted and how many didn’t. thanks
Hello lovely lady 👋🏼 and a very happy new year back to you. My best wishes on the shop. I’d love to buy one of your plants but alas, they probably wouldn’t survive the journey to Australia even if we were allowed to import. But I’m sure you’ve have a bundle of loyal customers. Thank you for the article!