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The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Elsie Too May 2021 11:47am, 21 May 2021 4,211 posts	Quote Pin Elsie Too I wondered the same Fleecy Mine are outside and I think the fact that they are much shorter than Em's is doing them a favour - so far they have survived the wind.
bigleggy May 2021 11:53am, 21 May 2021 6,761 posts	Quote Pin bigleggy Mine were a bit bedraggled yesterday so I put them back inside the greenhouse until it stops raining. It's still raining now so I think I made the right call
BarefootEm May 2021 3:01pm, 21 May 2021 2,691 posts	Quote Pin BarefootEm Do you think I should dig mine up and bring them back inside? I don't have a green house, otherwise I think I would have left them in there 😞
BarefootEm May 2021 3:02pm, 21 May 2021 2,692 posts	Quote Pin BarefootEm Haha just seen my typo... Wine is not helping them at all evidently!! 🤭
Velociraptor May 2021 3:06pm, 21 May 2021 52,748 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor The sunflower field that brightened up a country lane near us last year is full of little seedlings, presumably self-sown since the sunflowers were left to rot over the winter and have only just been cut down. Hoping for another display
BarefootEm May 2021 3:32pm, 21 May 2021 2,693 posts	Quote Pin BarefootEm Wow, looking forward to seeing a picture of that later in the year!
Elsie Too May 2021 3:50pm, 21 May 2021 4,213 posts	Quote Pin Elsie Too A farmer in the next village has said that they have planted 3 acres of sunflowers in the fields surrounding the windmill - I can't wait to see that I may have even mentioned it before on this thread - but I'm still excited to see it!
bigleggy May 2021 5:04pm, 21 May 2021 6,762 posts	Quote Pin bigleggy If they are in the ground then don't dig them up !!!
Sushi. May 2021 10:44pm, 21 May 2021 28,998 posts	Quote Pin Sushi. Oooh exciting. This will be the only time I’ve ever grown anything in the garden 🤣
BarefootEm May 2021 11:47pm, 30 May 2021 2,762 posts	Quote Pin BarefootEm So the very cute baby bunnies have been nibbling... They've killed 2 sunflowers and nibbled another, not sure if it will survive 😢 So this is what we came up with this evening as a quick aren't at protecting them till I can do something more... Not the prettiest, but colourful at least!

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OK - this years Competition.

The Roolz

1. Begins when you can
2. Ends when your sunflower start to fade
3. Biggest one wins

4. Disasters are to be posted so we can all laugh/commiserate/laugh at them

5. All forms of growing aids are allowed. There's no drug testing in this competition so if you find the Lance Armstrong of Sunflowers - grow it and win !

6. Bigleggy always wins ;-)

7. As the national flower of Ukraine is the Sunflower, the Russian Giant variety is banned.

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