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The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Jul 2021 9:23am, 30 Jul 2021 41,711 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Just been out to tie these down as Storm Evert hits the South West.
Elsie Too Aug 2021 1:47pm, 1 Aug 2021 4,327 posts	0 Elsie Too Not the tallest and not grown by a fetchie but how gorgeous is this…
Velociraptor Aug 2021 2:22pm, 1 Aug 2021 53,645 posts	0 Velociraptor There was a field like that near where I live last year. It's got sheep in it this year.
Mandymoo Aug 2021 2:33pm, 1 Aug 2021 12,237 posts	0 Mandymoo Thats stunning
bigleggy Aug 2021 3:23pm, 1 Aug 2021 6,813 posts	0 bigleggy Mine are looking a bit sorry for themselves these days........ Here is Sushi's entry And here is mine Not my best season it's fair to say
ndellar Aug 2021 4:52pm, 1 Aug 2021 3,876 posts	0 ndellar Tallest one is about 6.5 - 7ft maybe. Timmy has had his day, the tallest one is an unnamed specimen. The flowers are very small. Have envy of a house up the road where flower heads are size of dinner plates!
Fizz :-) Aug 2021 5:09pm, 8 Aug 2021 6,093 posts	0 Fizz :-) Just measured my tallest at 8’2”. It’s not quite flowering yet, so I’m hopeful of a bit more height yet
CogNoscensme AHA Aug 2021 9:04am, 9 Aug 2021 718 posts	0 CogNoscensme AHA My best one was beheaded and eaten by a squirrel yesterday 'and for that reason, I'm out'. 😩
Dvorak Aug 2021 10:14am, 9 Aug 2021 23,070 posts	0 Dvorak very unfortunate, Cog. My greenhouse posse continue, the tallest being now around six feet. It may have to take its chances outside soon. I also have a couple of decidedly wonky ones.
BarefootEm Aug 2021 4:08pm, 12 Aug 2021 2,948 posts	0 BarefootEm Mine are all very wonky now with all this wind, they look drunk! But at about 7ft tall I'm not really surprised, the heads on them are huge! One thing that really took me by surprise yesterday was finding what look like additional flowers growing from the same plant?? Picture is a bit rubbish, hard to hold the sunflower, and my phone in the wind! I've lost two which have snapped off completely, already decided where next years will be planted to be better suited

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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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