The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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sallykate
sallykate
Jun 2018
2:56pm, 20 Jun 2018
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:-o carniverous sunflowers!
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Jun 2018
3:08pm, 20 Jun 2018
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Velociraptor
Yup, they're mine :)
Eynsham Red
Eynsham Red
Jun 2018
3:16pm, 20 Jun 2018
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Eynsham Red
I’ve been using tomato feed once a week for the last two weeks sallykate.
Garfield
Garfield
Jun 2018
8:19pm, 20 Jun 2018
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Garfield
My two sunflowers are doing well...not hugely tall but they're alive. That's a good start in my books!;)
Wriggling Snake
Wriggling Snake
Jun 2018
10:04pm, 20 Jun 2018
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Went on holiday for a week. Scorching dry then a storm blew them over. One still looks rough. Three planted out in the flower beds as too weedy...Three a bit meh...now all of a sudden down to 3 contenders 😣
Dillthedog57
Dillthedog57
Jun 2018
5:26am, 21 Jun 2018
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After a slug attack a couple of weeks ago, these seem to have made a bit of a recovery, although the Dill kids ones are in the middle and are lagging behind. Mrs Dill is ahead by a leaf
Wine Legs
Wine Legs
Jun 2018
9:40am, 21 Jun 2018
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Wine Legs
Poppa (my dad) planted my second batch out on the garden this week. So far they're still alive. I need to get in on this tomato feed malarkey.
fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
Jun 2018
10:08am, 21 Jun 2018
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There was an old man who used to live opposite my nan who used to "p*ss on his cabbages" :-)
sallykate
sallykate
Jun 2018
10:12am, 21 Jun 2018
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Mine has reached 1.50m. Last year's got to about 2.9m by September.

Pee is good for making compost - it's nitrogen-rich and acts as an accelerator.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Jun 2018
10:43am, 21 Jun 2018
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Sadly, our compost heap is overlooked by a kids' tree house, otherwise eL Bee! would be right on to nitrogenating the compost.

My compost is still not very convincing. It's mostly going mouldy rather than rotting properly. I'm going to leave the heap uncovered for the rest of the summer to see if that helps.

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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