The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Elsie Too
Elsie Too
May 2021
11:47am, 21 May 2021
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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
bigleggy
May 2021
11:53am, 21 May 2021
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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
BarefootEm
May 2021
3:01pm, 21 May 2021
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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
BarefootEm
May 2021
3:02pm, 21 May 2021
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Haha just seen my typo... Wine is not helping them at all evidently!! 🤭
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
May 2021
3:06pm, 21 May 2021
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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
BarefootEm
May 2021
3:32pm, 21 May 2021
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Wow, looking forward to seeing a picture of that later in the year!
Elsie Too
Elsie Too
May 2021
3:50pm, 21 May 2021
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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
bigleggy
May 2021
5:04pm, 21 May 2021
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If they are in the ground then don't dig them up !!!
Sushi.
Sushi.
May 2021
10:44pm, 21 May 2021
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Sushi.
Oooh exciting. This will be the only time I’ve ever grown anything in the garden 🤣
BarefootEm
BarefootEm
May 2021
11:47pm, 30 May 2021
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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!

About This Thread

Maintained by bigleggy
OK - this years Competition.

The Roolz

1. Begins when you can
2. Ends September 4th
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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