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SAVE the DATE!
November 27
Saturday - 10 AM
Lakeside Park Garden Center
(across from Fairyland)
Chris Dix, one of our expert growers, will demonstrate digging, dividing and storing dahlia tubers.  He will be working for about an hour.  It's a great time to learn next steps in growing dahlias  
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  This little critter is a very BAD BUG!!!  It's called diabrotica or cucumber beetle.  They are herbivores, meaning they eat our plants, especially our dahlia flowers.  There is no easy way to get rid of them.  Early in the morning you can do hand to hand combat and squash them, one by one before they start to fly.  Insecticides don't seem to work.  If one flower is full of them, cut the flower and stick it in a bucket of water.  Diabrotica don't swim.

fall/winter in the Garden...

   It's not a pretty site!  Time to cut back and decide if you want to dig the tubers for the winter.  Look to the left for an opportunity to learn more.  Or click here for photos showing the process


San Leandro Dahlia Society ​is a group of people who love dahlias and want to share that love with the world.  Well, at least with the people in the East Bay. Our members come from the San Francisco area, around San Leandro, and as far away as Brentwood and Modesto.  We share successes and failures as well.  


What's happening in your garden?  Let the experts help you solve some of the garden problems.
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​  We meet on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at the Church of Christ (new location as of November 2019) Or, for the last almost year, we have zoomed.   
601 MacArthur Blvd. Our meetings include some business and a great program to encourage, demonstrate, or teach methods of raising more beautiful dahlias.  Dahlia related questions are welcomed. 
  
Our next meeting will be January 18, 2021 
 7 PM
​on zoom.
 
 Meeting topic: What's next?   ​
2022 Dues can be paid anytime.
$10 for SLDS
$24 or $27 for American Dahlia Society ($34 or $37 total for both)

Click here to go to the membership form
Click here to check out more about preparing the soil.