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The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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BarefootEm May 2021 7:15pm, 19 May 2021 2,687 posts	Quote Pin BarefootEm Just been out to check on them and some of the leaves look damaged... I think maybe from the wind 😞 There are also wants on some of them, is this bad?
DrPhleecingD May 2021 8:21pm, 19 May 2021 52,544 posts	Quote Pin DrPhleecingD I think I’m going to try to start again and hope it warms up. With this rain the snails would be having anything outdoors anyway
Fizz :-) May 2021 9:08pm, 19 May 2021 5,709 posts	Quote Pin Fizz :-) I have some random self sets coming up in the garden. What’s the bet they do better than my carefully tended Titans?
Rosehip May 2021 9:08pm, 19 May 2021 21,164 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip I keep forgetting to so new ones, but there are volunteers all over the garden
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) May 2021 9:12pm, 19 May 2021 31,818 posts	Quote Pin Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Mine progressed from the toilet paper tubes to plant pots at the weekend, they are outside and hardened off, they are wild bird seeds so it will interesting to see how they do.
ndellar May 2021 9:40pm, 19 May 2021 3,863 posts	Quote Pin ndellar Timmy is alive and well and being caught up by his siblings
bigleggy May 2021 8:21am, 20 May 2021 6,760 posts	Quote Pin bigleggy Mine (and Sushi's) have been outside for 2 days now. Lost a few early on to snails but the rest are doing ok
Elsie Too May 2021 9:27am, 20 May 2021 4,204 posts	Quote Pin Elsie Too Mine are outside but tiny compared to BareFootEm's
BarefootEm May 2021 10:29am, 21 May 2021 2,690 posts	Quote Pin BarefootEm How are everyone's plants doing in all this weather? Mine are just about ok, but the leaves are a bit battered 😞 Tried to make a wine break yesterday, but it didn't work and ran the risk of squashing them so I took it down again 😬
DrPhleecingD May 2021 10:30am, 21 May 2021 52,567 posts	Quote Pin DrPhleecingD I was wondering how drinking wine would help your sunflowers...mine wouldn’t last a minute outside right now

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OK - this years Competition.

The Roolz

1. Begins when you can
2. Ends when your sunflower start to fade
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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