Double Your Blooms by Pinching back Dahlias and Snapdragons 🌱 | Garden Chore Day

[@mistygeller3193]

I am so excited to see that cut flower garden as it keeps on groov’n along!! You have put so much time, sweat and love into reviving it 🥰❤️ It’s looking so happy!!

[@patmmathiesen1638]

Hi Kate. Am learning so many things about gardening that I didn’t know. You are so smart and clever about gardening things. Love your videos to teach all of us.❤ Pat

[@HelloGarden]

Pat, Brian and I kept chatting about how much we loved meeting you in real life! I'm so pleased you stopped me to say hello. Big hugs to you! 💕

[@tracythomas343]

Makes me smile 😀 On the 4th I had a day like that. I attended all the little things I put off. After I was done checking off my list I felt so accomplished. Those are my favorite days in the garden. ❤

[@HelloGarden]

Love that! Aren't they just the best? It makes me feel like, for a moment, all is right in my world.

[@tracythomas343]

@@HelloGarden exactly ❤️❤️

[@stefmcclure9386]

Another wonderful video! I am amazed at how fast your newly planted containers have filled in! Love the kissing callas 😊

[@HelloGarden]

I can’t believe it either. I literally squealed when I saw it! 🌱

[@user-yw9vm9gv9e]

I always feel excited and accomplished when seeds pop up. Gardening is therapeutic. Love your channel.

[@HelloGarden]

I literally squeal like it’s the first time I’ve seen it. 🙄 But it never ceases to amaze me!

[@rhondaschenk5727]

Love your videos, Kate. You teach me so many things! Thank you!

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you, friend! I really try my best to always include a little tidbit of knowledge… so thank you for saying something. 🌱

[@pcrice-lr2dn]

I make my list but once I get out there ,I say to myself JUST ONE MORE THING,OR TWO,OR THREE 🤣😂🤣 it’s hard to stop. Great video,thanks for sharing 🍃🌿

[@HelloGarden]

YES! I usually am ping-ponging around the garden and forget all the priority items I went out there for. 🙄 That list helped keep me accountable!

[@susiefrederickson660]

@@HelloGardensame!!! I used to think it was me… but see it’s a gardener thing!!

[@HelloGarden]

It’s totally a gardener thing! Solidarity!

[@GardenerPhyl]

I call this “onemorethingitis”

[@janetthornton7909]

I make lists on my iPhone just like yours. I make the titles like “2022 Year of Completion”. But then I have to change the year each January cuz I never get the list completed 😂. I enjoy your channel immensely. 👩‍🌾

[@HelloGarden]

Oh this means so much to me. Thank you for being here! And I feel like I can always get more done than I do. But it’s soooooo satisfying to check off those boxes.

[@kaychaney6102]

We all find those weeds that you wonder how you missed it. Thanks for keeping it real.

[@HelloGarden]

Right?!? It’s like, “Who just let this 2ft tall weed in my garden?!?” Or they sneak in among a perennial just trying to blend in. 🤣

[@juliamorrisey5541]

We live within 2 hours of each other with me living closer to Tacoma and I find it interesting how our plants flower or produce at such different rates. It really speaks to the effects of micro climates. My dahlias have been blooming for about 2 weeks and I am cutting fresh blooms for the house. I succession plant my peas. The first plantings are fully harvested and the plants pulled. My second planting is about half done. It is so interesting to me how much difference small weather differences make.

[@HelloGarden]

That is WILD. But you are absolutely correct. Where I live we get a weird maritime effect. This is where we need to lean into our inner garden wisdom. 💕

[@bobr9895]

The person walking back and forth in the window looks like he is getting some ideas too.😊

[@HelloGarden]

🤣🤣🤣 Brian was itching to get stuff done!

[@GraceinGardening01]

Love how you are using the new space and enjoying it so much. I pinch back my zinnias and sunflowers the same way...double blooms baby!

[@HelloGarden]

Heeeeck yeah! But if someone else is reading this comment, she’s pinching branching sunflowers. 😆 I was thinking of doing a short on what to pinch and what not to pinch.

[@GraceinGardening01]

@@HelloGarden Great idea!

[@Tibetan2]

@@HelloGardenGreat idea, Kate! Would love to see a tutorial on pinching plants in the garden. I’ve only recently adopted this practice but find that it makes a huge difference in both blooms and foliage. Yes, please share with us!

[@soklin121]

Really nice garden. You grow them very well.

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you so much, friend. Plants are one of my life's greatest joys (behind all of my boys, of course.) 💕

[@stephaniefuller]

Thank you, I just started some dahlias from seed this year and I have pinched back butbI haven't gotten any blooms yet. You just confirmed that I am doing the right thing.

[@HelloGarden]

You totally are! Let me tell you, it was painful to pinch away those buds, but I just remind myself of the end goal.

[@pattyvalinote4612]

Hi Kate, hope you had a great holiday! Question have you ever had a dahlias not come back after clipping it? Your peas 🫛 looked delicious 😋

[@HelloGarden]

Not once. They all behave like they just got the world’s greatest haircut and now it’s party time. 🎉 🤣🌱

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Lovely video Kate 🌺

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you! 😊 Jasmine, I love that I'm getting to know all of your names who are with me on this journey. Thank you so much for being here.

[@annsfrench]

You could root your dahlia cuttings too!😊

[@HelloGarden]

So I’ve only ever rooted them when started from the tuber and you take a little slice off the top when it sprouts. I’ve never been able to root a hollow stem!

[@jagodaperich-anderson5058]

Fun to see how plants become friends in your pots. And now I'm off to pinch my dahlias. I'll be brave. 😊

[@HelloGarden]

Be brave! You got this!!!

[@jennifergreene8891]

Good morning Kate! Love how friendly your plants are 😊 the Callas are kissing their baby 😊 What a great yield of Peas! Q? Can you root the Dahlia cuttings? 🤔 thank you for sharing another great informative video.

[@HelloGarden]

It’s so tender when the plants literally are loving on each other. 💞 As for dahlia cuttings, those are a much more refined science. You actually can only root cuttings when you force the tubers indoors. You let them wake up, start to sprout, then take a knife and slice it off at the tuber. You can then root those. Kinda hard to fully explain in the comment, but hopefully this gives you a good idea and Google can fill in the rest of the details! 😉

[@newt52864]

Great tips, thanks 😜

[@HelloGarden]

You’re so welcome! ☺️

[@soniewhitten4844]

enjoyed the video, thank you for sharing.

[@HelloGarden]

Thanks for watching! 💕💕💕

[@cathtf7957]

Great videos!

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you friend!

[@Truongthikimcuong92]

Good luck ❤❤❤🖐️

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you! 💞

[@eileenchang2173]

Hi Kate, what I learned from your last and this video is to really appreciate the small wonders that each plant has to offer. So often one gets caught up watching others do mass plantings in their huge gardens. Just recently I really appreciated these mini floral spikes peak out in between the maidenhair fern fronds, like a mini world on its own in a planter. 🥰🌸🇨🇦

[@HelloGarden]

Yes yes yes! Landscaping can be so big and so performative, but at its core, it is also a deep appreciation for the small movements from nature and how we connect to them. 💕

[@sivlow264]

@@eileenchang2173 I totally agree. Mass plantings in huge gardens might look impressive but something is definitely lost, like charm and the beauty of the individual plant and the harmony and charm in a group of plants.

[@eileenchang2173]

@@sivlow264 🥰

[@kfetter9046]

A friend gave me some tomato seeds back in 2020, and I finally got around to planting them. Well, among the tomato seedlings, there was one unknown plant. I let it grow and grow, and suddenly it started producing little squash-like flowers, and one day there was a ball-like fruit on it. I was able to i.d. it, and it turned out to be a lemon cucumber! I didn't even know it was a thing. It is getting bigger, and there is no striping, so I am not sure when to harvest it.

[@HelloGarden]

Finally getting to all these comments and that is a lucky find! I love a lemon cucumber. 💕

[@kfetter9046]

@@HelloGarden , update - it's not a lemon cucumber! It now is beginning to look like a honeydew melon, LOL! Stay tuned for the final outcome! 🤣

[@sivlow264]

Just spent my 4th of July re-weeding my massive border. Had to carve out some space since my echinaceas where choking my dahlias. Note to myself, divide and give away echinacea in the fall. Or maybe spring is a better time, what do you think? Have an amazing day!😊

[@HelloGarden]

I like to divide my perennials in the spring. It’s so much easier when I can see their little growth points!

[@jeaniemcdaris8276]

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[@HelloGarden]

💞💞💞

[@MrsBrown011]

Hi Kate. I live in North Seattle and am growing dahlias for the first time this year. Should I dig and store my dahlias for the winter?

[@HelloGarden]

Ooooooo… tough call. If your soil is sandy (and you are feeling lazy) let it ride. If you have clay soil and/or are in love with certain ones, dig them up! But wait until the first killing frost.

[@kristaself126]

Which Dramm Snips do you prefer? Amazon has choices 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@HelloGarden]

Oh I love the little pointy tip ones… 18025. Maybe I need to do a video on my favorite garden tools!

[@stephaniefuller]

I just thought of something, why did you skip fertilizing because of the heat? Should I stop fertilizing in Florida for the whole summer? I am also having some kind of insect sucking problem, the leaves are first turning a white ish color that drying up. I think thrips or spider mites. I don't notice webs though. I just fertilized yesterday.

[@HelloGarden]

GREAT question. Florida is (I’m assuming) consistent heat. Here in Seattle we had rain last week and now it’s going to pop up into the 90’s this weekend which is suuuper hot. When you fertilize during a big heat wave it can stress out the plants. If your heat is consistent, it’s not an issue.

[@stephaniefuller]

@@HelloGarden Thank you, I did not know that, lol I thought it would help them become stronger against the heat. Lol I have to laugh at myself.

[@HelloGarden]

I know, right? But instead they try to put on growth and blooms during the hottest of days and it’s simply too much for their little systems.

[@shannamcdonough9588]

What zone are you in?

[@HelloGarden]

We just got reclassified to zone 9, but that’s insane. I garden like I’m in a zone 7 because we can get some cold snaps that kill a lot of plants that are zoned 8.

[@ritagarcia30]

What great tips on the Dahlias-I just ordered the 2025 catalog from Swan Island Dahlias- they are located in Oregon - Kate they have 40 acres of dahlias- oh my gosh from their site it looked like a candy store of color🩷💛💙❤️💚

[@HelloGarden]

Oh I am thinking I might need a field trip! Their catalog is HUGE. Like the biggest selection I’ve ever seen!