The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Silvershadow Aug 2018 8:11pm, 19 Aug 2018 1,245 posts	0 Silvershadow More uses for your sunflowers when they've topped out fetcheveryone.com/blog-view.php?id=3937
bigleggy Aug 2018 11:05am, 20 Aug 2018 6,206 posts	0 bigleggy I have a late contender. Sprouted up the last few days and is now taller and all the others. Not flowered yet but when it does I'll be out there with a tape measure
Elsie Too Aug 2018 6:35pm, 20 Aug 2018 1,937 posts	0 Elsie Too Mine our so rubbish I won’t bother with a photo, however on our holiday we had a day trip to the island of Sark where they have planted a whole field of sunflowers specifically for the bees. I’ll try to remember how to post a photo..,
Elsie Too Aug 2018 6:35pm, 20 Aug 2018 1,938 posts	0 Elsie Too Mine our so rubbish I won’t bother with a photo, however on our holiday we had a day trip to the island of Sark where they have planted a whole field of sunflowers specifically for the bees. I’ll try to remember how to post a photo..,
Elsie Too Aug 2018 6:37pm, 20 Aug 2018 1,939 posts	0 Elsie Too You might need to zoom in to make out the flowers
Wine Legs Aug 2018 7:09pm, 27 Aug 2018 4,486 posts	0 Wine Legs This is one of my "giant" seeds. It's not going to be winning any competitions!!
Garfield Aug 2018 7:14pm, 27 Aug 2018 9,237 posts	0 Garfield Mine's given up the ghost for this year...still alive but shrunk due to lack of watering. Roll on next year's effort... Keeping two alive for this time is a win in my books, given my usual black thumb!;)
Fierce and Focused Fleecy Aug 2018 7:47pm, 27 Aug 2018 42,561 posts	0 Fierce and Focused Fleecy Just getting any to grow this year and keeping them alive in the drought was an improvement on last year! Next year: I will actually feed them, the soil at my allotment is super dry and sandy so it needs improving.
Wine Legs Aug 2018 8:00pm, 27 Aug 2018 4,487 posts	0 Wine Legs These two haven't flowered yet, so they're still in with s shot. I think they might be more than 7 foot, which is exciting in itself.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Aug 2018 8:35pm, 27 Aug 2018 27,064 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) My tallest is around 8 foot, I will need to get the ladder out to measure it, if it wasn’t suffering with curvature of the spine it would have been even taller.

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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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