The 2017 Gardening Forums Sunflower Growing Competition!

[ReslerMomma]

I'm guessing this is the tallest flower I'll be getting, so I went ahead and got some picture with my forum name in it! I hope everyone else's are going well.

 

[zigs]

Lookin good

 

[KKosy87]

Sorry for the poor lighting. I took this in the evening just before the thunderstorm and right before i started weeding. There are 4 here. The 1 in front is my largest. Also have several around my fence line! I love sunflowers! I lost a few this year, but I would say i have a little less than a dozen doing really well. Hope they bloom soon!!

 

[MaryMary]

@KKosy87, good to hear from you! You hadn't posted for so long, I was starting to wonder if you had left us! Speaking of posting, get out there and make a few!

Members with more than 50 posts at the time of the draw (31 August 2017) can enter.

@zigs, how is MaryMary Sunflower doing? And Larisa Sunflower? And Zigs Sunflower?

 

[zigs]

Bit battered in the storm last week but recovering now

 

[MaryMary]

Bit battered in the storm last week but recovering now

Goodness, what a difference two weeks makes!! YAY!!

 

[KKosy87]

@MaryMary I know so sorry! Just has been a very busy summer!

 

[johnny canoe]

My bird seed sunflowers seem happy.

 

[MaryMary]

@MaryMary I know so sorry! Just has been a very busy summer!

No, there is no reason to be sorry!! Summer happens.
I just don't want you to be disqualified on a technicality.

My bird seed sunflowers seem happy.

@johnny canoe, the bees look happy, too! I love that last picture - they look like eyes, and the flower is smiling!!

 

[zigs]

Lookin good @johnny canoe

Goodness, what a difference two weeks makes!! YAY!!

We'm had a thunderstorm since then, the lightning fixes atmospheric nitrogen and gives everything a feed

 

[KKosy87]

Anyone have suggestions on how to keepcants off the leaves? I picked one fiarly yellow one off because it was crawling with ants and didnt want it to spread. I had the same problem last year and just lived with it. It looks so nasty to flip the beautiful green leaves over and find them covered in ants and bugs!

 

[Tech]

The 2 runts that the deer left. Pushing about 7 feet now.

 

[Larisa]

Good weather has finally come to us. It's just that I can not believe in such happiness! Sunflower Boatswain believed!
It's a clever sunflower. He realized that this happiness can also quickly end. Therefore began to grow rapidly.

 

[Larisa]

@zigs
Thank you for keeping my sunflowers and @MaryMary ! .
Here you never know what will happen tomorrow.

 

[MaryMary]

Wow, @Larisa! That's a big Boatswain!! Glad to see he "weathered the storm!"

Anyone have suggestions on how to keepcants off the leaves?....snip..... It looks so nasty to flip the beautiful green leaves over and find them covered in ants and bugs!

Ants and bugs? Are the bugs aphids, and the ants are farming them? If they look like the ones pictured in this link, that's probably what is happening.

https://www.google.com/search?q=aph...ht7PVAhUK3IMKHRDfCKoQ_AUICigB&biw=917&bih=483

If it is, get a water bottle that you can set to "stream" and spray them off with water that has a little dish soap in it.