Please help.

Hi have recently landscaped my garden in my new house it was a real mess.

well I have grown a stunning lawn and I have put flower bed on the opposite side of the garden.

I have compost it about 1 foot deep with miracle grow compost. peat free. and on the other half I have used the same compost to the same depth but mixed it with some miracle grow farmers manure.

well I decided to plant two stunning sunflowers they stand at about 6 inches high. well they have lasted two days and now they look awful the heads have started to shrivel up and leaves have started turning yellow. and I am gutted.

one is planted in the compost/manure mix. the other is planted in just the compost and the same has happened to both.

I am new to gardening but I love it so if some one could tell me where im going wrong that would be great.

 

Hi

Sounds like they not been watered and/or havnt been hardened off to outside living ...
We have had a very hot couple of days and with newly planted plants and they have not rooted out in to the new soil dry out very quickly

Spruce

 

I have watered the soil every morning around 8:00 am

 

"have started to shrivel up and leaves have started turning yellow"

its been so hot it wasnt enough just the once by the sound of it

 

ok. thanks for your help I will pull them up and try again

 

Also if you start them indoors from seed don't forget to harden them off before planting outside. It would be too much for a young seedling to be planted directly into a border in hot sun.

 

how would I go about hardening them?

 

Hi Kriss

Where roughly do you live as it helps with answering any questions and put in your avatar

 

I live in shrewsbury, shropshire

 

hardening a plant off , is basically putting out in the garden in a sheltered spot during the day and bringing back in to the greenhouse over night and you do that roughly for two weeks , and it gets the plant used to being out doors , you can also use fleece to cover them over at night, keeps them snug.

Then after all that faffing about they can stay out.

Spruce

 

I don't have a green house

 

how about a window ledge ? or a porch or one of these

 

what is that called and I will buy one now. sorry for sounding thick but I am very new to this

 

No I didn't grow them my self the were bought. In a pot. But I'm going to start to grow some of my own tomorrow.