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The 2017 Great Bigleggy Sunflower GrowOff

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Wriggling Snake May 2017 4:52pm, 10 May 2017 15,023 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake 2 seem ok if a bit bent. Held up by canes...pics to come. They are basking in rare northern sunshine so keaving them to it. Oiled my decking. That is a fact rather than a euphemism.
Wriggling Snake May 2017 4:01pm, 11 May 2017 15,030 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake Better than this time last year. Even if more bendy.
Nightjar May 2017 7:45pm, 11 May 2017 4,789 posts	Quote Pin Nightjar Looks good and strong
oi you May 2017 9:39pm, 11 May 2017 371 posts	Quote Pin oi you I've left mine on their own for a week to go gallivanting in Norfolk. I wonder how they're doing.
Fizz :-) May 2017 8:27pm, 21 May 2017 2,193 posts	Quote Pin Fizz :-) I've planted my first batch out in the garden. Top tip from the RHS - like tomatoes, plant them deeper in the ground than they were in the pot, and they'll grow extra roots from the buried stem.
alpenrose May 2017 9:11pm, 21 May 2017 26,103 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose I might pot mine on this week and harden them off.
McGoohan May 2017 9:23pm, 21 May 2017 29,202 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan This is a pic I meant to post. They've had almost 2 weeks more growth on this.
alpenrose May 2017 8:26pm, 26 May 2017 26,204 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose I didn't go down the garden yesterday and saw a comment from Fleecy earlier so thought I'd better check the babies. I fear 2 of them are too far gone.
Fierce and Fearless Fleecy May 2017 8:38pm, 26 May 2017 34,989 posts	Quote Pin Fierce and Fearless Fleecy I think about 4 of mine survived. Now outside and adjusting. But God knows what will happen when I'm away, hoping for rain! Put lots of slug pellets down..
Fierce and Fearless Fleecy May 2017 8:40pm, 26 May 2017 34,990 posts	Quote Pin Fierce and Fearless Fleecy I was going to plant them in the front garden where they would have thrived, but the decorator is going to be painting the front windows and there's not much space there so he would have trampled them. So they're in pots on the patio.