10/18/2026
🌸 THE DAHLIAS MAY HAVE LIVED TO SEE ANOTHER WEEK! 🌸❄️
We had quite the scare overnight! Temperatures dipped lower than forecast, and we woke up to frost covering much of the grass around the farm.
Naturally, our biggest concern was our nearly 300 dahlia plants, which are still producing beautiful flowers for our local florists and markets!
After walking through the gardens this morning, we’re feeling VERY optimistic! 🌸
We found some light, crystalline frost on a few older, spent blooms that were already past their prime and no longer suitable for cutting. However, approximately 99% of the foliage showed no visible evidence of frost, and most importantly, our developing buds and fresh flowers appeared unaffected!
Based on what we’re seeing, we’re feeling about 90% confident that we’ll have dahlias for at least one more week! 🤞 Of course, Mother Nature still has the final say, and we’ll know more once the plants have had time to show any delayed frost damage.
If everything continues looking this good, we’re planning to enjoy one final week of flowers before cutting the plants back in preparation for digging our dahlia tubers toward the end of October.
And the timing couldn’t be better, because that’s also when we’ll be harvesting our five varieties of sweet potatoes! 🍠
Technically, sweet potatoes are tuberous storage roots, rather than true tubers like regular potatoes. Dahlias also produce tuberous roots, so either way, we’ll be digging up a LOT of underground treasures before November arrives!
We’ll definitely post an update once we know how our dahlias handled this little brush with frost. But for now, the evidence is encouraging, and we’re hopeful they’ll give us one more beautiful week of blooms!
🌸 Fingers crossed that our dahlias aren’t quite ready to call it a season!
— Beetles, Bones & Bouquets 🌿
