Anyone else doing sunflowers this year.

If you dont open the windows you can get temps in excess of 40 degrees in march lol .Got to get them open first thing in the morning(0800hrs)usually water them at same time and give a feed every week .To exposed outside so keep them indoors and save seed for the birds in the winter
:D

 

Don't they knock on the roof?

 

No thats the squirrels :D :D

 

Sorry Bananna man took your last post wrong way .Glasshouse is about 15 foot high at the back so no problems on the height end of things glasshouse pic

 

15 foot high, its crying out for some bananas then!!!

 

Did you think I was talking about the birds? That would have been a good quip but im not feeling that quick tonite!

 

Seed heads have appeared sunflower head

[ 01. June 2006, 10:50 PM: Message edited by: Beefy ]

 

Look what I found in the greenhouse this morning :D :D :D

 

Well done beefy mate, I am still just over 3 feet!!!

 

Must take more pics tomorrow about 6 or 7 seed heads ready or just about to open. Had to pot up my small double headed ones today.The ones in the earlier pic in this thread (before I figured out how to post them) are now about 7 1/2 feet tall :eek: :eek: :eek:

 

I have eight growing they are all about 18 inches high ..but usually they end up about 8 foot at least!..i had some lovely ones in my front garden two years ago and they had huge heads and were so nice people took photos of them and a drunk came in the night and broke the stems and trashed them ..and left all the mess for me to clean up..it was heartbreaking..so last year i didnt put any on the front garden ..but i have planted three on the front behind a pampas grass... this year...so if any drunk wants to get at them they will slash themselves on the pampass grass as thats like razors..

 

Beefy, have lost now 4 of my prospering 5ft sunflowers to the wind. I only have 6 left :rolleyes:

 

unfortunatley we didn't do any this year due to no where to put them, but we will do again next year... going for the biggie then.. maybe we can have a sunflower comp next year!!!!

 

Wind free ! Liking the red one Beefy.