The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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bigleggy
bigleggy
Aug 2018
5:14pm, 11 Aug 2018
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bigleggy
ER - wash your tea dishes, fill a spray bottle with the water and spray the leaves.

The flies don't like the bubbles from the fairy liquid :-)
Eynsham Red
Eynsham Red
Aug 2018
5:31pm, 11 Aug 2018
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Eynsham Red
Thanks bigleggy, I’ll give it a go. I am fascinated though by the way the ants farm these little beasts and spend all day running up and down the plant doing what ever it is they do.
bigleggy
bigleggy
Aug 2018
5:32pm, 11 Aug 2018
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bigleggy
The ants will get rid of plenty but not before they do damage
Dillthedog57
Dillthedog57
Aug 2018
5:43pm, 11 Aug 2018
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Oh that’s not good Fleecy. We have been in Venice today, start the journey home tomorrow, have to be at the ferry by Friday
Fierce and Focused Fleecy
Fierce and Focused Fleecy
Aug 2018
6:49pm, 11 Aug 2018
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Fierce and Focused Fleecy
That’s a long time to get back to Calais Dill, are you driving 30mph? :)
Dillthedog57
Dillthedog57
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7:53pm, 11 Aug 2018
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Not much more than that Fleecy! I am old. And avoiding tolls, mostly, except for Switzerland
sallykate
sallykate
Aug 2018
9:56pm, 11 Aug 2018
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sallykate
A squirrel (I assume) has decapitated my tallest! It was never going to win here but I was proud of it as it was a side shoot following an earlier incident.

Next year I'm hoping to grow lots of the things on my super-sunny allotment :-)
sallykate
sallykate
Aug 2018
9:57pm, 11 Aug 2018
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sallykate
Garlic is supposed to be good against aphids too: grate some finely into water and use that as a spray.
bigleggy
bigleggy
Aug 2018
11:53am, 14 Aug 2018
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bigleggy
Yeah !!!!

Garfield
Garfield
Aug 2018
11:54am, 14 Aug 2018
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Garfield
Wow!

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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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