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Thu, Mar 21, 13 at 17:43
| Is anyone else getting their dahlias off to an early start this year? I had good success last year getting earlier blooms by starting the tubers ahead of time in pots and then transplanting them into beds after last frost. This year I'm getting a bit carried away with early starts.
I've run out of pots and now I'm converting misc 1 gallon jugs into pots. By the way, the big jugs of water are thermal mass to help hold heat overnight. When a really cold freeze in the lower 20sF is expected (like tonight) I cover the water jugs and pots with blankets and they stay well above freezing even though the temperature inside the greenhouse may dip a bit below freezing. (I don't have any kind of heater in the greenhouse, just solar heated water.) |
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- Posted by steve22802 7a VA (My Page) on Fri, Mar 22, 13 at 8:22
| The outdoor temps here dipped to right around 20F last night. Inside my unheated greenhouse it was a tender plant damaging 29F and a small freeze testing bowl of water froze a 1/4 inch thick. But happily under my protection zone of water jugs and blankets the temperature stayed at an acceptable 41F degrees. :) Many of my early start dahlias have leaves out already and would likely have been badly setback without the extra protection. |
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- Posted by oscarthecat z7MD (My Page) on Fri, Mar 22, 13 at 18:22
| keep on keeping on. Sounds good to me Steve. |
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