Topic: The great a4all sunflower competition!

[Gardengirl]

I had six sunflowers growing nicely in my greenhouse, five have been attacked by greenfly :'(  That leaves one which I have now planted out and supported with a cane as it is now about 8".  Now it is raining, so what's the betting the slugs and snails finish my one remaining one off >:(   Oh well, at least I tried :-\

[MagpieDi]

Oh, such tales of woe Pat and Busy Lizzie!! Daren't post a pic of mine now !! 'Twould make you feel twice as miserable !! ;)  ;D

Hey BB ....could have been me , but was on an entirely different mission that night !!    ;)  :o   ;D

And as for your suggestion Dottie........just shameful !! I'll say an extra prayer for you come Sunday!!  ;D

[Les_Woof]

Our girls sowed about 40 seeds!

About 38 germinated - good result me thinks.  

But alas we have about 12 good ones all about the same height (12") but they have been that height for about 2 weeks now.  In fact even the smaller ones seem to have slowed down.

Well we can but hope :)

Good luck all.


I have some special feed for all you fellow competitors kindly supplied by Doris...... roundup miracle sunflower feed especially formulated for knobbling competitors!

Good luck all
Take care

Les

[Mrs Ava]

Gloat gloat....got 8,  ;D all planted and supported and all about 3 foot high.   ;D ;D  Tis a miracle you hear, I am rubbish at sunflowers usually, and it could all still go pair shaped! Last year, got a couple that my sis grew, supported them nicely, then, went on holiday for a week...came home, to find said sunflwers face down on the ground cut clean in 2 by my nice string ties!  :'(  I is a killer queen!!!  :'(

[fat larry]

i'll give it a go. got some extra tall ones (allegedly) from B&Q, so we wil stick em in under water bottles at the lottie tonight - though am bit worried by -6 forecast for friday night!

[Andy H]

so all these threads about sunflower comp? Where do we sign?

Get sooooo confused easily :(

Ours went to allotment today and one trodden on and snapped already :o

Got the tallest in the world variety and teddybear ones and cutting ones...

[Andy H]

Found a little baby one, just a week old...Ahhhhhh!
Just hiding in the corner of the greenhouse bless it! ;D

[return of the mac]

Russian giant, sown on 18 March ;D ;D ;D

May the best sunflower win! John

[DolphinGarden]

Ah, I am so pleased with the progress so far. They really put on a spurt in the last week to 10 days. Mine were like yours, Les_Woof, no sign of fresh growth for a couple of weeks.

regards,

Ciaran

http://photobucket.com/albums/y35/GrandCanal/?action=view&current=June7th05.jpg

ps the one second from the right is the one that got seriously munched the other day...and still it grows, no sign of obvious stunted growth-yet!

[sandersj89]

Not sure how I missed this but here goes. Sowed some back in March and moved them to the allotment after the frosts ended. Now up to about 4'6" thanks to lots of chicken poo!

Last year we got to about 12' but that was at home with lots of water.

Jerry

[Andy H]

4`6" >:(
Oh well, we will either catch up or be embarressed :-[