Dahlias hate clay! The best you can do is to plant each tuber in it's
own good sized pot full of good potting soil and then you can either
dig a shallow hole and put the pot in that or put the pot on a stand
or base if there's any trees which roots will seek out the water. Also
as your in a dry area, ( I live in the High Mojave Desert of calif. )
you'll have to watch out for spider mites too and grasshoppers love
the tender plant of dahlias.



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"Grandpa" jsdebooATcomcast.net wrote in message
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I've bookmarked the site and will check them out when and if they
growG. I hope they do. Looks like the consensus is a semi shaded
area & easy on the steer manure. I'll amend well with peat moss for
water retention since we have little humidity in the summer, 10%
usually. Soil is clay and sand but often hard as a rock so the peat
moss should help keep it broken up somewhat.

David Hill wrote:

I would be interested to know what varieties these dahlias are ass
so many
from the 50's have been lost.
You might be able to match some of them to pictures on this site.
http://www.wgltd.co.uk/




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