The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff
3:13pm, 14th May 2024 | 5 Comments
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Just using the title of the forum thread to get your attention! Did it work? Ah well. Never mind! 😉😂 Actually this blog is going to be about sunflower growing so you can look away now if your not interested!
At the end of March I bought a couple of packets of seeds so I could join in with bigleggy's grow off and a couple of days later I planted a batch. I had little hope that they'd grow because I'm not a good gardener so I was really surprised when they started to sprout! Here's what they looked like by April 6th.
I thought that they looked a bit etiolated and would probably die. Another Fetchie suggested I should "... Start putting them outside in the daytime and bringing them in at night and they'll toughen up. It's worth thinning them out to one per pot now too." Which I did. At the end of April, when Mr Ness and I went away on holiday, I planted a few more seeds in 3 empty pots I had left. I split the seedlings so they were now one per pot and found some wooden kebab skewers to prop them up.I then put all the pots in a tray and left them outside in the garden. And forgot about them.
But they seem to have generally thrived on neglect! I photographed them today. Ten of the original twelve are still alive! Here's a wider view....
Where you can see the pots on the right hand side which have seeds planted at a later date to the rest. And a close up shot (excuse the rubbish photography).
So, Fetch gardeners, what next? Should I leave them as they are for a bit? Repot them? Is it best to plant them in my garden in a border somewhere? Any advice would be appreciated. TIA.
At the end of March I bought a couple of packets of seeds so I could join in with bigleggy's grow off and a couple of days later I planted a batch. I had little hope that they'd grow because I'm not a good gardener so I was really surprised when they started to sprout! Here's what they looked like by April 6th.
I thought that they looked a bit etiolated and would probably die. Another Fetchie suggested I should "... Start putting them outside in the daytime and bringing them in at night and they'll toughen up. It's worth thinning them out to one per pot now too." Which I did. At the end of April, when Mr Ness and I went away on holiday, I planted a few more seeds in 3 empty pots I had left. I split the seedlings so they were now one per pot and found some wooden kebab skewers to prop them up.I then put all the pots in a tray and left them outside in the garden. And forgot about them.
But they seem to have generally thrived on neglect! I photographed them today. Ten of the original twelve are still alive! Here's a wider view....
Where you can see the pots on the right hand side which have seeds planted at a later date to the rest. And a close up shot (excuse the rubbish photography).
So, Fetch gardeners, what next? Should I leave them as they are for a bit? Repot them? Is it best to plant them in my garden in a border somewhere? Any advice would be appreciated. TIA.
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Ness
A fifty-something retired teacher who took up running to improve the muscle tone in her legs after a hip resurfacing op in 2003. It all started with a 'Race for Life' 5k, that I took part in to raise money in memory of my Dad.In 2005 I discovered the Fetcheveryone site, and thanks to the help and support of Fetchies, my running has moved on a bit since then.
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