The 2017 Gardening Forums Sunflower Growing Competition!

[KKosy87]

Y'all mine just started to peek through the soil! Eeek! Such an exciting time.

 

[Beth_B]

I cheated, well sort of. I bought mine already started, three varieties. A farm near me has thousands of sunflowers growing along the edge of a field, about a quarter mile. So I thought I would recreate that along a portion of my front fence. Hopefully next year they will just reseed if the birds don't get them all.

 

[Larisa]

Go real Russian sunflower go!

Oh, @Beth_B !!!

 

[roadrunner]

I was in my driveway and all of a sudden I hear a loud thump in my garden, thinking what could that be, since it was just a few feet from me in my garden where nothing big is erected

I looked around and saw a seed head from one of my large sunflowers which is approximately 10ft tall laying on the ground.

This seed-head has a diameter of 12 inches and weighs just under 5-pounds.

 

[ReslerMomma]

Wow that is a big flower!

 

[Greenhorn]

I took these today in the back yard, I like the top picture very much. The picture below it gives perspective. I have some other garden pictures I took that I'll be posting in another thread.

 

[ReslerMomma]

@Greenhorn - beautiful! Looks like a postcard or something.

 

[alp]

Mine is still 4 inches tall and that is the tallest! What hope have I got???

 

[Tech]

Some nice biggins there!

Oh Sunflower gods, I call upon thee to watch over my poor little flowers. May you part the skies and bring light to them on shady days.

Seriously though mine are only a foot tall, looking pretty limp too. @alp I feel ya.

It's quiet in here, a little too quiet. People must be strategizing

 

[ReslerMomma]

It's quiet in here, a little too quiet. People must be strategizing

Good morning to all! (Or whatever time it is where you are).

I have been strategizing about how I can keep the dogs from knocking mine down. I put up a little fence hoping to deter them.

 

[zigs]

Mines gone a bit Chernobyl

 

[Greenhorn]

I had some visitors to my Sunflowers today My daughter is an Ornithologist of sorts and she was surprised at the finches eating the sunflower leaves. The birds also snack on seeds from the Cosmos and Bachelor Buttons, but this is the Sunflower thread.

 

[ReslerMomma]

I had no idea birds ate the leaves!

 

[roadrunner]

I wonder if the bird is eating insects on the leaves and the bits of leaves being eaten is just consequential?

My old sunflower plants attract tons of insects, especially after they have long-past bloomed.

 

[Tech]

Was doing some weeding, went inside for 5 minutes came back out to discover a deer topping my sunflower row. She managed to leave me a few runts though..