The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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bigleggy Jun 2018 12:05pm, 1 Jun 2018 6,165 posts	0 bigleggy tut tut Nightjar No need to worry.......but if you win we'll all blame your early start....you know that don't you
Wine Legs Jun 2018 2:44pm, 1 Jun 2018 4,379 posts	0 Wine Legs Nightjar's look ridiculous. Mine are pitiful by comparison, after such a good start. But them I'm a rookie at all this growing stuff malarkey.
bigleggy Jun 2018 2:56pm, 1 Jun 2018 6,167 posts	0 bigleggy we're all rookies Wine Legs. If the slugs take a liking to your plants there's little an expertise in growing can do about it. It's what they look like in September that matters
Eynsham Red Jun 2018 6:10pm, 1 Jun 2018 2,945 posts	0 Eynsham Red One of mine has been well and truly munched, but the other which is in a different location, so far is ok.
Velociraptor Jun 2018 6:41pm, 1 Jun 2018 38,370 posts	0 Velociraptor I'm spooked now. I'm going to put my big pots on a platform on the decking where the slugs don't go, possibly because the sparrows get to the slugs first. It worked for the seedlings.
Eynsham Red Jun 2018 6:48pm, 1 Jun 2018 2,946 posts	0 Eynsham Red I’ve put some copper tape around the bottom of the munched plant. Hopefully that might help. No problem with sparrows though. They’ve been eating the ants at the top!
Wine Legs Jun 2018 8:21pm, 1 Jun 2018 4,380 posts	0 Wine Legs I found a SLUG in my pots way up on the window sill! They've now been liberally sprinkled with little blue pellets & the offending bugger is DEAD!
sallykate Jun 2018 10:17pm, 1 Jun 2018 5,418 posts	0 sallykate I smashed a huge snail near my munched Pike’s Peaks earlier. Hoping it was the culprit.
Wriggling Snake Jun 2018 10:21pm, 1 Jun 2018 18,745 posts	0 Wriggling Snake We are growing dinner for them. They can't help themselves 😁
Nightjar Jun 2018 7:58am, 2 Jun 2018 5,024 posts	0 Nightjar I’ve resorted to a few little blues to get the blighters that are flying to the top leaves. Clearly the ants are not doing a good enough job, though now I think about it that was the one that didn’t have an ants nest in the roots when I planted them out.

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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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