Sunflower Sowing times - competition

[Charlotte Sometimes]

(This comes form the person that can kill mint.)

Please come round and kill mine.     I inherited it from the previous owner.  That and ground elder.

[waggi]

sunflowers were in kite (greenhouse) and SPLAT          

[Multiveg]

  slugs have eaten 2 of the 3 sunflowers I had sown in pots 

[Steven]

Just sown 'Little Leo' in loads of pots on my decking so hopefuly (fingers crossed) will have lots of colour in summer.

[Amazin]

In keeping with tradition, my Sunflower seeds disappeared again. Should've remembered from last year: plant sunflower seeds twice - first, straight in the ground for Mr Blackbird and second, in pots until well germinated and safe.
This advice will now appear in the latest edition of my magazine: "The Hapless Gardener" (circulation:1)
Anyway, I sowed some more on Saturday morning (in pots). In the afternoon I was perusing my borders - I enjoy a good peruse - when I saw 20 baby sunflowers, which I know I didn't plant.  From this I deduce two things:
1.   Last year's sunflowers have self-seeded.
2.   Blackbirds don't eat old stock!

[Amazin]

Forgot to mention, they're all Fothergill's Giant Single.

[Andy H]

...And what did your mother have to say about that!! 

Debs

That was the cow I was on about