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Sep 2017
4:52pm, 13 Sep 2017
31,032 posts
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McGoohan
THEY WERE MAGIC!!!
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Sep 2017
4:52pm, 13 Sep 2017
31,033 posts
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McGoohan
And had a reasonably small man in a castle at the top of them...
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Sep 2017
5:26pm, 13 Sep 2017
16,376 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Sara Raven says:-
"For statuesque sunflowers, sow them into a modular, divided seed tray full of multi-purpose compost in early March. When the seedlings are two inches tall, move them into three inch pots. Grow them inside until they reach about a foot and then plant them out deep in the garden, adding a good barrow load of manure to the soil where they are to go. Don’t pinch them out, you dipstick McG, start tying them into the support as soon as you can.
If you want to pick your sunflowers, you grow them in a different way. Rather than wanting to maximise their height, you stunt the plants to make them easier to pick and increase the production of flowers. To do this, pinch out the growing tips. When they reach about eight inches tall, remove the tip between your thumb and forefinger. It feels brutal, but within a week you’ll see lots of buds breaking from the space between the remaining leaves and central stem. The sunflowers then grow to about six or eight feet tall, and rather than producing one king flower to top the stem, and ten or fifteen sub flowers, you’ll quadruple the number of blooms, each one with a perfect long straight stem with one slightly smaller sunflower at its end. "
Honest, that what it says on her website.
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Sep 2017
5:37pm, 13 Sep 2017
31,034 posts
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McGoohan
Wow, she's very specific.  Well, if that's what she says, that's what I'll do next year.
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Sep 2017
7:35pm, 13 Sep 2017
28,551 posts
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alpenrose
All in the bin now, to be collected and sent to that big compost heap tomorrow.
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Sep 2017
12:40pm, 14 Sep 2017
8,081 posts
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Garfield
Sounds intriguing!:)
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Sep 2017
1:40pm, 14 Sep 2017
16,399 posts
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Wriggling Snake
In direct contrast to Raven I checked my poor specimens with the idea of berating them for being pants. That the last flowering on has developed 2 side bubs. No pinching. What the hell does Raven know?
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Sep 2017
1:40pm, 14 Sep 2017
16,400 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I wish I could type......
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Mar 2018
12:45pm, 9 Mar 2018
2,659 posts
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Fizz :-)
When do we start for 2018?
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Mar 2018
1:35pm, 9 Mar 2018
5,390 posts
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sallykate
Good question! This weekend or next?
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