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If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before.
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we live @1500ft, have frost ,very rarely is the ground frozen, do i have to dig up my dinnerplate dalhias every year
Dahlias are the most amazing thing ever- we went to the dahlia festival at Swan Island Dahlias and it was truly an amazing site. Getting ready to get my own bulbs in the ground!
Let’s coin a new phrase. Frost = ‘A Saskatchewan Pinching’.
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I, too, have planted all of my dahlias– they aren’t doing anything in the basement either, so they might as well be outside. You and I will be the ones laughing at our Dahlia blooms on the fourth of July. As a perennially early planter, last year I picked my first Dahlia on June 27.
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The soil is still pretty cold: http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/climate/ithaca/gfr_logger.html
So they’ll just sit there happily until it warms up. It’s that early June frost after they’re up and doing that you’ve got to watch out for. Keep the pots and buckets ready to cover them.
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what do you do if you’ve lost the top 2 feet of a plant to frst on the 10th of June in Saskatchewan? Can you cut back the frozen leaves/parts and have it still grow back?
Taryn, you’re talking about a dahlia, right? (You just say plant.) I haven’t had that much experience with dahlias, but my guess is that it will continue to grow, but blooming might be delayed so long that it gets killed by autumn frosts before it blooms. You won’t know until you try.
Thanks Kathy. Yes, it is a dahlia. It’s the dinnerplate variety and I bought it last weekend for $30 and it’s allready 4 feet tall. The leaves are black on the top 2/3 of the plant now. I guess I’ll cut it back to the green and see what happens. Thanks.
Gee, gardening is tough in Saskatchewan! Are June frosts typical? Cause if they were, I’d keep any $30 plant on wheels until I was sure all danger of frost was past.