Tallest sunflower and largest head challenge

I need to move mine from last year, i will be building a shed here before the end of the summer.

 

I'm in! Mine were not very tall last year, but this year they might be better ,

I started mine off in the bathroom last year , it's nice & warm on the bathroom window ledge & the neighbours were talking about my drug factory!!! ,I did explain to the village gossip that the plants were sunflowers! I shall certainly grow some more sunflowers in the bathroom this year! I will also sow direct. I put copper take around my seedlings last year, it certainly helped to keep the slugs off

Good luck everyone

 

I will give this a go, still got a huge packet of them from last year but ddint really have the space.
They will fit nicely between my young leylandii hedge while it is still growing this year.

 

Watch out folks.....I've got my seeds ! The slugs have been told if they go anywhere near my sunflowers when the are sown it will be a one way trip for them

 

Top Tip - don't tie your sunflower stems up too tightly to their supports and then go away on your hols, or you'll come back and think another competitor has garrotted your prize plants as stems on sunflowers grown for large heads can rapidly increase in diameter.

Anybody else remember the days when carpets came rolled around a giant, thick Bamboo Cane? That's what I use to lash to a length of galvanised steel plumbing pipe driven into the ground, and I lashed a 2nd pole to the top of that.

 

Many thanks for the tips , I tend to use scaffolding for mine .

 

Count me in, it'd better get sourcing some large seeds!!

 

Right, you can get ready

 

I've sown my sunflower seeds and I've ordered the scaffolding!

 

I forgot to mention the mixed packet was from pound stretcher £2.

 

Im in and Kongs are sown

 

I am in
Unknown ones

 

Ive been informed that kongs are Hybrid , your disqualified .

 

I planted 60 yesterday of unknown ones that I feed the birds with, I will give them away if they pop up .

 

Hi, i've found a few picture from last year, not that tall but looked they looked nice, the bees loved them @BeeHappy .