Dahlia Tubers

 

​Ordering

*When ordering, know that having items in your cart does not reserve that item. You must check out completely to finalize your order. You will receive email confirmation of your order.

*California State residents will be charged for sales tax at checkout.

*I am a tiny farm- in some cases I will only have a couple tubers available of a specific variety. These may sell out fast! Im sorry! I grow about 600 plants and available stock depends on tuber production from specific varieties, how many I like to grow for my cut flowers (I LOVE wine eyed Jill for bouquet making so always grow more of her than others) and if its a new to me variety that I only have 1-2 plants of

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Shipping

*I will be shipping out starting late March/early April depending on your growing zone. Please contact us if you would like your tubers shipped earlier (ie to take cuttings for experienced growers)

* I will be shipping out via USPS, with the following shipping rates bases on what you spend. I use flat rate USPS priority mailing boxes; these prices correlate to how many tubers fit in a box: 

 $0-20 = $6 shipping

 $21-50= $14 shipping

$50-150= $18 shipping

$150 up= Free shipping

Free Shipping Over $150 

 

* I  WILL combine shipping for multiple orders.

           To enjoy combined shipping, please email us with your order numbers. I will mannually be refunding shipping when I begin shipping out and will not catch these without a heads up. We retain $3 per order combined to cover extra office time. 

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*We will have a local pick-up option.  Select this option during the checkout process 

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          This is for local folks only on the Southern Mendocino coast, CA. Option to pick up your order at our farmstand. I will keep the tubers safe in storage until late March/ early April until tuber eyes start showing with warmer temperature. Once the time comes, I will send out an email and we can agree on a day to leave your order at the farmstand

 

Tubers and Terms of Sale

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*Sale are for individual tuber or very small clump. If you receive a clump, these are NOT imports. Everything we sell is grown right here at Nature's Tune Farm. Sometimes an eye grows between two tubers, so I divide generously and often leave two tubers intact. I take lots of my own cuttings, and here and there my availability incudes small clumps from my own cuttings.

*The tubers you receive will have an eye and will be the correct variety

*Upon receiving your order, open and inspect each tuber and contact us within 5 DAYS upon delivery if there are any signs of damage or rot from the mailing process. Provide an order number, pictures and an explanation of the concern in your email please. 

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         ***Keep in mind that all varieties are different: some show their eyes earlier than others. Some make big tubers, some make small, some make skinny, some make fat; the size of the tuber doesn't denote the end plant. Some tiny tubers can make giant plants with tons of blooms

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*We do not give refunds once the tubers are in your care due to user error or hardship in your growing area, such as rotting in the garden due to too much rain or watering, pest damage, or failure to plant at the correct time.

         ****Keep in mind, tubers may take 4-6 weeks to grow above the soil. Allow dahlias adequate time to wake up in your soil before getting concerned that your dahlia is not growing. Prematurely checking tubers may impact overall health and growth. I will provide growing tips with your order. 

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*While I claim you will receive the correct variety, accidents do happen. Lucky for you and for me, there is only one human (Emma) doing everything with our farm's dahlias. This gives me a great level of quality control with all steps including labeling and keeping tubers straight. Helpful tip: write out a garden tag per variety when you plant to help keep track in your garden. If you do believe I sent the wrong dahlia, contact me. Keep in mind, a wide variety of color and bloom quality can occur within different climates. Provide quality pictures of blooms with foliage as documentation for us to consider in a replacement or refund request. 

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Viruses and Disease 

* While I do not test for dahlia viruses, I do take a few steps to keep my stock healthy. 

*I pull any suspicious looking plants and I also pull unhealthy/struggling plants that may be fighting virus without giving some of the other viral clues like vein clearing.

*I sanitize my snips out in the cutting field between varieties, for 2 min in a 10% bleach solution and do NOT offer a you pick. I also sanitize the same way when digging and dividing tubers

*Mostly, I try and keep my plants very healthy. We practice no/low till farming methods (low till for dahlias, because I do pull them them every fall) focusing on very healthy soils. I top dress dahlias part way though season and give various organic nutrients through drip or foliar feed (fish emulsion, microbial teas).  We cover crop the growing space through winter, benefiting the soil. I rotate where the dahlias get planting every season with vegetable crops. We will not plant dahlias in the same spot until 3 seasons have gone past which greatly helps prevent the spread of disease 

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*Combating viruses in dahlias seems impossible. These viruses evolved with dahlias and have been intertwined in our cultivated dahlias for as long as we have been growing. With the national average of infection rate at 87%, I feel like it's impossible that some of my stock doesn't contain them, but if the plant is heathy you might never know with out getting in deep with expensive testing. In saying that, I have seen extreme virus cases pop up in my field. Most of these are from new additions to my farm (they get pulled up). One year we had poor weather and harsh bug pressure in the beginning of a season. A variety I had never noticed viral signs on, showed them. While those got pulled up, I believe they had been dormant in the plant and showed due to the plant being stressed.

* It is difficult to spot and correctly diagnose viral symptoms. Sometimes nutrient deficiencies present similarly on a plant the way a virus presents

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*I DO NOT give refunds due to suspected virus: It is very difficult to identify where a plant was infected: a diabrotica beetle or thrip may have flown over from your neighbors infected plant and fed on yours or other stock you had or purchased the same season might have been infected and passed on via scissors/snips to the plant you got from me. It is not practical for me to refund your dahlia purchase based off of a feeling your plant came infected. If the same variety is looking healthy at our farm, do NOT anticipate a refund. NOW on the reverse, if I mail out a variety in spring, plant my tubers of that variety and all the plants of that one come out sickly in my own farm, I will contact you, give a refund and recommend you keep an eye on it or pull it up. Disease can be sneaky and lay dormant 1-2 years before showing.

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*I have had very low incidents of gall at my farm. The very few I have, I believe were from newly added additions. This is a very serious bacterial infection. I am happy that my sanitation regime prevents the spread as does crop rotation. I am lucky enough to be able to crop rotate my dahlias every season with annul veggies. I do not grow dahlias in the same beds until 3 years go by. This also helps contain the spread of gall.

Gall is tricky too- it can come from your own soil or it can come from the dahlia tuber. Gall can be dormant for two seasons in a tuber. It is possible that I could sell gall from newer to me stock that came from the source before me. If you believe you have gall from my stock please contact me; reiterating it can be present in your own soil so I do not garuentee refund for such.. But I would like to know so I can keep a look out. If I indeed find it in my stock of the same, I will refund.

I will also refund and immediately contact if I suspect gall in tubers I already sent out.

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