Grow ginger in your cold zone! (Yes you can!)
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CENTRAL INDIANA ZONE 6
Small tuber ≠ bad tuber 🌱
Every fall, dahlia sellers get bad reviews because a tuber “looked too small.” Here’s the truth: size doesn’t decide how well your dahlia grows.
What actually matters:
✅ A visible eye: that’s where your plant sprouts. No eye, no plant, no matter how big the tuber is.
✅ An intact neck: the part connecting the body to the crown. If it’s broken, the tuber won’t grow.
✅ A firm body: not mushy, not rotting. A little wrinkling is okay.
Some varieties naturally make tiny, skinny tubers. Some make giant potatoes. A pinky-sized tuber with a healthy eye can give you a full plant covered in blooms. 🌸
Before you leave that 1-star review, check for the eye. Your grower probably sent you exactly what you need. 💛
Meet the new tool for my grow room 🥹😘
Can you relate?
Sometimes the best thing you can do in the garden is… nothing. 🌸
I left my lisianthus alone after the first round of blooms (no fussing, no babying), and they surprised me with a second flush! Yes, it’s November and they’re fashionably late, but I am NOT complaining. Look at these beauties! 💜
If you are wondering, I grabbed some plugs from @farmerbaileyplugs early in the spring, these are Super Magic Apricot and they are divine!
Have you ever let your Lizzie’s do their thing and gotten a second round of blooms? Or is this your sign to try it next season? Tell me in the comments 👇
#lisianthus #cutflowergarden #flowerfarming #lategardenblooms
Planting shrubs in fall is basically paying for something you won’t get to enjoy for six months. Anyway, here are my new babies. Please clap for their future selves. 👏🌱
❤️Ninebark Amber Jubilee @firsteditionsshrubstrees
❤️ Eastern Snowball Viburnum @monroviaplants
Here’s the thing nobody tells you about planting for foliage: flowers get all the attention, but foliage does all the work. Blooms show up for a couple of weeks, take their bows, and leave you with a sad green blob for the rest of the season. Foliage shrubs, on the other hand, are the friends who actually help you move. They bring color, texture, and structure from spring all the way into fall, no diva behavior required. And fall is secretly the best time to get them in the ground. The air is cooler, so they’re not getting fried the minute you plant them, but the soil is still warm enough for the roots to settle in and get comfortable before winter. That means while everything above ground looks like it’s given up on life, the real magic is happening underground.
Come spring, these shrubs won’t be starting from scratch. They’ll already have a head start, a root system they’re proud of, and hopefully a little gratitude for me hauling bags of soil around in October like a woman possessed.
I went looking for some Fort Vee Potting Mix from @vermontcompost , I am able to find it locally now and I believe @sundowngardens is the only place where you can find it in Indiana 💪
Unfortunately, they were sold out and now I have to wait until they order more next year (But I did find some other goodies!)
