The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Wriggling Snake
Wriggling Snake
Jun 2018
12:09pm, 21 Jun 2018
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More dry stuff vrap? Pissing on compost is a common thing adds nitrogen. Pissing directly onto your cabbages presents a problem, mainly with my neighbours I would think.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Jun 2018
12:20pm, 21 Jun 2018
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More cardboard may well help. Part of the problem is that we have a lot of lawn.
sallykate
sallykate
Jun 2018
12:38pm, 21 Jun 2018
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Too much grass will tend to make the compost soggy. It should have an equal amount of green stuff and brown stuff - brown being dry. Shredded paper could help too, or leave the grass cuttings to dry out after cutting, then rake them up and add to the heap.
Dillthedog57
Dillthedog57
Jun 2018
2:38pm, 21 Jun 2018
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We have a few local stables who give away their much for free, makes lovely compost when added to grass and prunings. It has lots of worms too
alpenrose
alpenrose
Jun 2018
5:25pm, 21 Jun 2018
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The kids can't always be in their tree house.......
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Jun 2018
5:27pm, 21 Jun 2018
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That's true, school's still in :)
Dvorak
Dvorak
Jun 2018
5:36pm, 21 Jun 2018
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Dvorak
It's better if you pee on your garden by moonlight. In several ways.

Whilst out running last night I was chatting to someone whose husband is a one-person gardening business. Turns out he keeps the grounds for an outfit just up the road from me, amongst whose concerns is horses. I don't know if he is garnering commercial amounts, but apparently their own roses are looking fantastic.
Wriggling Snake
Wriggling Snake
Jun 2018
5:42pm, 21 Jun 2018
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Could be worse. My neighbours have movement sensitive spotlights.....
sallykate
sallykate
Jun 2018
2:23pm, 26 Jun 2018
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sallykate
I'm out of contention: something has something to my tallest. I can't even tell what's happened to it: not a clean break but almost looks like it's gone mouldy right at the top.

Ho hum.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Jun 2018
2:31pm, 26 Jun 2018
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McGoohan
Mine survived a fortnight of neglect while we were on holiday and the tallest has now sprung up to a massive height of 3 feet.

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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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