Dahlia Society of Victoria

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Now is the time to do some garden maintenance:

Weed along garden walls and retaining fences
Weed the aisles around the through your dahlia patch
Sharpen pruning shears and garden scissors
Tidy up pots
Clean up hiding places for slugs, snails and earwigs - timber piles, under bricks, along wood fences and patches of heavy grass
Stock up on fertilizers, potting mixes, mulch, compost including liquid compost and soil conditioners.
Stock up on environmentally safe sprays and powders for dealing with damaging insects and fungal infections.
If your garden is susceptible to infestations of red spider mite consider spraying nearby fences and stakes with a miticide (not an insecticide).

Now is also the time to check tubers in winter storage:

Tubers in a storage medium need to be kept damp to avoid rot from wet or shrivelling from drying out.
Remove tubers showing signs of rot and spray the medium with a little water on signs of drying out.
It is common to store tubers over winter in polystyrene boxes, often stacked on top of each other. Check those bottom boxes to make sure that strong shoots in a ‘downstairs box’ are not being bent over by the ceiling above.

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Meetings: Mt Waverley Community Centre

47 Miller Crescent, Mount Waverley 3149

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