Hi fellow members, I was lucky enough to purchase after a battle with the mailmen of the America, and the UK, a very valuable package. Back numbers of the PSD...
Ken, Information on ordering 'Dahlias of Today' and 'Dahlias a Monthly Guide' as well as contact information for the Boley's is available on the internet at:...
Thanks Don, I assure you as soon as I can get server changed, and thus get to my web site all this information will be on my web site. KES UK. ... From:...
hello ! Take a look at my "dwarf-tubers", there will be lots of cuttings in a couple of weeks. The pots are small 6-7 cm/diam, put 4 of them in a plastic...
Tell you what Marie I bet a shilling to 100 Kilo's of farm yard manure the right hand shoot produced on the file marked 0157 is Spike? Pleased you are pleased...
Hi Marie, Of course Marie Spring has arrived and we are all taking cuttings. You having a late start and a shorter season, and are not ready to begin. I will...
PLEASE READ AGAIN MISSING WORDS & SPELLING MISTAKES. Hi Marie, Of course Marie Spring has arrived and we are all taking cuttings. You having a late start and a...
RE boiling water treatment I have heard of abuse for a tuber that took forever to sprout. RE fertilizer I only use fertilizer when plants are actively growing,...
... **Gordie gives the tuber a 'whack' on the bench. Seems safer than boiling water. Satisfying too! ... *NO FERTILIZER! Never. Roots are not needed if there...
Ken has asked me to let you all know that his PC has a virus so he can't reply to emails at the moment. He's also concerned that he might have inadvertently ...
Hi Geoff ( Tongue in cheek) Is it the computer that gives him trouble or perhaps t'other way around. Just as long as his Dahlias aint got any I'll be in...
Hi Gang, Pleased to say I'm back in the land of the living, and the computer was just clogged with various dahlia issues no virus. If anything it help me to...
Quote from Ken Stock: If anything it helps me to get a bit of work done in the greenhouse with 850 cuttings taken to date, and more by the week-end. We have...
Bless you Ted & Margaret, It's nothing special, but I hope to do three thousand for Bob's field this year if I can, and this year I have the special ones for...
Cuttings: We like to have at least 4-5 plants of the best first year seedlings. And of course if the second year seedling was nice, we need several of them...
In a message dated 3/14/2007 3:15:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, kesdahlias@... writes: hanks America, and good dahlias to all. KES UK. Thank You Ken ...
Our soil test came back and our soil is very acid. The recommendation was to add dolomite lime that has an equal mix of calcium carbonate and magnesium...
Sounds very sound advise to me Ted, and talking of soil tests I think they are the finest thing anyone who loves the dahlia can do. I've got a mate up North in...
The pelletized lime is becoming more common here. Everyone used to buy the powder. I have no idea how much lime is lost to the pelletizing process. It is...
The A and AA sized bee pollinated seeds were sprouted last week and it appears that there will be a good crop of some of our favorites. Mostly A sized but some...
Lucky ol' you two. I'm not sure what caused my apparent none germination of seed. I stored it in precisely the same way as always, but so far, and I can only...
I have 4 year old seeds that germinated here, 9 of 12 seeds that´s OK I think. regards from MARIE I have 4 year old seeds that germinated here, 9 of 12 seeds...
Hi Marie, You will forgive me I have just got in and in need of a little encouragement from a fellow dahlia grower, and everyone seems to be doing better than...
We have been using a soil mix called appropriately "germination mix". It is a very light mix of peat moss and some chemicals to allow it to take up water and...
Hi Ken, The boss here, hang in there with the seeds ,don't forget that of the ones you gave me almost 75% have now been potted on and they are all from the ...
Thanks Ted, and our Bob, I'm glad you didn't make a meal of the fact that the bees did a better job of fertilization in 2006 than this clumsy fella did, but...
Hi Gang, Now listen up, while writing the last email I had a brainwave, or was it a brain storm? (Wind him up and he'll go on for years) This is the bones of...
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