Pinching dahlias redirects their energy from one big, thick central stem to multiple side-shoots. This will encourage your plant to produce multiple blooms all throughout the growing season. Quickly after pinching your dahlias, you’ll notice two new shoots will grow where only one was before! Pinching your dahlias makes them • bushier, • less top-heavy • less prone to wind damage, • PLUS the stems will be a more manageable size when you cut and arrange your first dahlias blooms. One of the bigge

HOW TO pinch your dahlias and why? On our farm when our dahlia plants are around 30cms in height we “pinch” them. Pinching means removing the central growing tip to encourage lateral growth on your plants. Doing this results in more stems which means more flowers! Woo hoo! Your stems will also be longer and much thinner which is perfect for floristry too. We walk around with a bucket and gently remove the tips with our fingers being careful not to transfer sap from one plant to another. You can

HOW TO pinch your dahlias and why? On our farm when our dahlia plants are around 30cms in height we “pinch” them. Pinching means removing the central growing tip to encourage lateral growth on your plants. Doing this results in more stems which means more flowers! Woo hoo! Your stems will also be longer and much thinner which is perfect for floristry too. We walk around with a bucket and gently remove the tips with our fingers being careful not to transfer sap from one plant to another. You can