DSC January, 2004

NEXT MEETING
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004 at 8PM
at 9th & Lincoln. 

Program:  Tinsky builds a home/apartment greenhouse before your eyes!  Deborah whets your Need with alluring 2004 New Introductions slides as well as demonstrating how to plant seedlings.  Baker Bill will bring more slashed & stapled milk cartons to share. (Be sure to thank him effusively so he’ll do this again!) Elsie hopes to have Bottle-of-ink-in-a-pencils to sell.  New Year’s Special: Carol’s magnificent calendars are at reduced bargain price! Carol H, Virginia E, & Ann G. volunteered to bring tasty treats. (oh joy!)

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RESERVE
Jan. 24-25
FOR 2004 DIGOUT

 

 

Come join the best filthy fun you’ll ever have.  Jan. 24-25, Sat. & Sunday.  9 am until dark.  As DJ points out, this is NOT Super Bowl weekend.  Take this opportunity to apprentice yourself to master diggers & expert cleavers; learn about Clorox baths & labeling tricks. 

Consider bringing an extra change of clothes (lots of water activities involved), boots, layers of shirts, dividing tools, “butt pads” for sitting on hard metal surfaces, camera, surgery gloves, extra sox, your ADS classification book,  & a great attitude.  Share snack items with the hungry hoard.
 

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‘TWAS A DARK & RAINY NIGHT
Despite wretched weather, 44 merry revelers celebrated another great year of dahlia growing at the
DSC Christmas Party.   >More>

 

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LOVELY LOPPING DAY 

The rain abated just as Deborah collected the last seed pods of the season. By the time Steve, & Rudy arrived, the sun shone on our efforts. Ted, Rose & Tinnee cut back & hauled branches.      Lou L. painstakingly pulled weeds. Sweating in shorts, John G. precision raked both the Dell & the Hillside. Much thanks to all their great-spirited efforts!  >more>
 

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A TRUE DAHLIA AFICIONADO  DOESN'T FORGET
THE ALL IMPORTANT JANUARY JOBS

Larder your patch with compost: leaves, grass clippings, steer or chicken guano (if your plants are out). Keep the weeds obliterated; a little work now saves backbreaking labor later.  Plot your plot for next spring so you know what types of dahlias you need to procure. Dream through dahlia catalogs or cruise the BIG LIST, or contact the suppliers.

  I order from, TLC  406-752-1316,  Mingus 360-573-2983 & Pioneer 360-855-1357 .  The Cornishes favor Dan’s Dahlias 360-482-2406.  Ferncliff, Canada  604-826-2447 is highly reputed as well.  Start negotiating with DSC members for scions of their jewels from last season.  Pot up tubers in milk cartons & put them in a warm spot to promote sprouting.  I use my loft.  Last year I experimented with planting tubers (dormant at least 4-8 weeks) directly into milk cartons as soon as I dug them up.  I divided but did not clip off the feeder roots.  They thrived.  Build a bookcase greenhouse to try some cuttings.  Plant some dahlia seeds; they yield low odds for great flowers but provide such an anticipatory kick waiting for each to bloom. 
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Register to attend the Pacific Southwest Dahlia Conference
Feb. 14-15.
Donate something wonderful for the PSW raffle.

Don't forget to renew
your DSC and ADS membership

 

Submit your e-mail address changes to
Web Meister Ted, and please encourage others
to do the same to receive our eNewsletter.
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Carol Hemingway, a DSC member and a professional photographer, invites you to view her Dahlia Gallery, Dahlia Calendar and an upcoming
"Dazzling Floral" Exhibition at Mercy Center,
2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA January-Februray, 2004.

Carol also requests your assistance in sending her
dahlia growing tips for possible addition to the
2005 Dahlia Calendar.
Deadline is January 15th".
January 2004 eNewsletter of Dahlia Society of California, Inc., San Francisco, CA
   Editor: Deborah Dietz
    Please address your editorial questions to Deborah@SFDahlia.Org
    Please address your email circulation and other web questions to Ted@SFDahlia.Org