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Planting Dahlia Tubers PNW Zone 8b

🌸PLANTING DAHLIAS IN THE GROUND🌸 It is best to wait until all risk of frost is long gone. Your soil temp should be about 50 degrees if you're the type of person to check that kind of stuff. Dig a hole twice as wide as the tuber cluster, and about 6 to 8 inches deep. Place the tuber cluster on its side. The little sweet potato things need to be lying parallel to the ground. If you have growths coming from multiple sides of the tuber, do not worry! You can plant them with some of the growth facing downwards and those shoots will right themselves lickety-split. Refill the hole with soil. Your soil needs to be well-draining for dahlia tubers. They will easily rot if they sit in too much moisture. You can add amendments to your soil if it is not well-draining. You may add compost as well. I mixed Bulb Tone granule fertilizer in with the soil I put back in the holes. It's an organic fertilizer with chicken poop, shells, and other stinky but useful stuff. I used it because I have raided my compost pile too much already and am waiting for it to replenish. The taller dahlia varieties will do better with a stake. If you have a very tall variety, plant the stakes with the tubers so you don't have to worry about messing up the roots later on. Do not water them in unless you know for sure you won't be getting rain again for a long time. Dahlias really do rot easily. I had one rot in the box in the one month between dividing them and planting them. Do add some type of mulch. I use the cedar shavings that I stored the tubers in. You can use fine compost as well. I plan to add a layer of compost once I see the shoots make it above the ground. Sit back and enjoy!!! This is a fun project to include children in since it really isn't difficult. The flowers are so fun, they grow quickly, and they bloom for quite a while. Perfect for little ones to be rewarded with after all that digging. Because dahlias do rot in saturated soil, it is recommended to remove them from the ground after they have finished flowering if you live up here in the soggy PNW.