The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Dvorak
Dvorak
Apr 2020
3:19pm, 6 Apr 2020
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Dvorak
First seedlings have broken the surface :-)
Fizz :-)
Fizz :-)
Apr 2020
4:46pm, 6 Apr 2020
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Fizz :-)
Mine too :-)

And the council have put some bunding down the end of our road. I’m going to give it a couple of weeks in case they come back to landscape, then put all my spare seeds in it.
Wriggling Snake
Wriggling Snake
Apr 2020
4:53pm, 6 Apr 2020
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Wriggling Snake
excellent, I stil haven't done my guerilla gardening project
Dr PhFleecyD
Dr PhFleecyD
Apr 2020
5:01pm, 6 Apr 2020
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I scratched about and found some seeds from last year. No allotment to grow them in but the front garden is very sunny and warm. Going to see what I have, definitely have done pretty back ones and maybe some tall ones
Dvorak
Dvorak
Apr 2020
5:02pm, 6 Apr 2020
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Dvorak
Hmm, there's an idea. On the SSE facing bound there is a stone wall and an area of municipal bushes, which have had their annual cut down and will probably be left to it now. Could do marigolds on the outside edge.
bigleggy
bigleggy
Apr 2020
8:52am, 7 Apr 2020
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bigleggy
Dvorak - marigold ??? This is a Sunflower growing competition :-)

Lets have no more talk of 'others'

There's only one game in town :-) ........ and I need to procure some seeds pronto !!!
Wriggling Snake
Wriggling Snake
Apr 2020
8:59pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Good work leggy, the first mention of a non-sunflower and you are on it!

Dvorak....stick a sunflower or two other too, see what happens.
Dvorak
Dvorak
Apr 2020
9:16pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Dvorak
That's what i meant! - sunflowers against the wall and, er, other things, elsewhere. Having had a look at things, not as straightforward as I'd thought. It used to be plain grass (my childhood cricket pitch) but the council appeared in the 80s with a load of bushes, a plan, and some people who couldn't read a plan. So it all got a bit overplanted. Still, i have secaturs and a cordless hedge-trimmer.

But i digress :-) now have 100% germination in the individual trays. Couple of days of sun on the greenhouse have done the trick.
Wriggling Snake
Wriggling Snake
Apr 2020
9:49pm, 8 Apr 2020
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Wriggling Snake
Well saved. You are ahead of the sunflower game.....
Dr PhFleecyD
Dr PhFleecyD
Apr 2020
7:50am, 9 Apr 2020
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Dr PhFleecyD
Oops forgot to plant them yesterday! Off to do it now

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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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