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How to wake up DAHLIAS for earlier blooms

A trick to bring dahlia tubers back to life indoors, long before your last frost. And a secret on how to keep dahlia tubers from rotting! I'm Michaela and I garden in zone 6, Romania, Eastern Europe, growing cut flowers in our tiny cottage garden. I'll show you how to plant dahlia tubers, bought from the market, in pots or trays, how to prepare the soil in which they will sprout, how to check the tubers to make sure they are healthy, how to label each plant and what new varieties of dahlias -perfect as cut flowers - I bought this year. Then I'll show you how last year's dahlia tubers, which I dug out of the ground last fall and overwinteres in the basement, have already sprouted. And we go for a walk through the forest, looking forwild garlic, admiring the wildflowers on the path: wild violas, cinquefoils, buttercups, lungwort, wild crocuses… but also nettles! Video chapters: 0:00 - How to plant dahlia tubers to make them bloom earlier 03:25 - New cut flower dahlia varieties we are planting this year 10:22 - How last year's dahlia tubers sprouted 12:44 - Spring trip to the forest, forage for wild spring flowers and wild garlic