@Pacnorwest they're beautiful, i love dahlias but the slugs and snails like them to and it's the storing of the tubers that's a problem.
Verbascum Snowy Spires second flush of flowers. Verbena bonerences still flowering Polyanthus that also flowers this time of year and in spring
Logan very nice pics of your garden .. Verbena are always reseeding & they are a welcome pop up where ever . Are your verbascum a biannual? Some of mine are, and gone this year. You have a beautiful garden full of veggies, fruits and blooms galore. I am a huge fan of your garden. I don’t seem to have a lot of slugs in my dahlias I use bark chips around the entire dahlias beds, and buy predators that eat the eggs. And sprinkle DE-Diatomaceous Earth small crustations crushed that are sharp..that discourages them and also sluggo bait which is safe for animals and kids. It’s really the earwigs that are a pain they chew holes on the flower petals and some times if gophers have dug in they are a huge problem and munch on the tubers. I’ll dig down and find a connecting tunnel and set traps. Works great, set a trap in one direction and another in an opposite direction, sorta back to back ..So I got ‘em coming and going…
Too right about those objectionable earwigs, pacnor. They are the reason I no longer grow them. I don’t like ‘em and the Bride has an even stronger aversion. When we found a couple in the house after bringing home some cut ones…well, that was the end of that.
Thank you Sjoerd, and thank you Pacnorwest it's great what you do with your dahlias. My verbascum are a perennial, i planted them last year at the end of may and it's the first time that they've properly flowered.
Earwigs are my love hate relationship in the greenhouse. They eat soft bodied insects - life aphids - but when that runs out they eat my basil and just started in on the ripe tomatoes this week. Creepy looking little things. Especially when I peel back corn husks or lift a pot, and they all run. Then it is a stomp fest.
