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(33,024 posts) Wed May 31, 2017, 01:18 PM May 2017

Baby sunflowers

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Baby sunflowers (Original Post) Ptah May 2017 OP

I always grow some hibbing May 2017 #1

I'm alway amazed at how fast they grow. Ptah Jun 2017 #4

Always a bunch coming up around the bird feeders Bayard May 2017 #2

I can't have a garden without sunflowers. Ptah Jun 2017 #5

Hi Ptah! denbot Jun 2017 #3

This the first place I've been able to have a garden in six years. Ptah Jun 2017 #6

hibbing

(10,096 posts)

1. I always grow some

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Wed May 31, 2017, 01:50 PM

May 2017

I have six sprouted now, 5 are "mammoths" and one is some other variety. I never stake mine, but I did have one get blown over last year. Love watching them grow like 12 feet tall, fun plants.

Peace

Ptah

(33,024 posts)

4. I'm alway amazed at how fast they grow.

Reply to hibbing (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 2, 2017, 01:59 PM

Jun 2017

Bayard

(22,061 posts)

2. Always a bunch coming up around the bird feeders

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Wed May 31, 2017, 02:58 PM

May 2017

We end up mowing them down. But, I do plant a bunch elsewhere, like along the back fence.

Ptah

(33,024 posts)

5. I can't have a garden without sunflowers.

Reply to Bayard (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 2, 2017, 02:00 PM

Jun 2017

denbot

(9,899 posts)

3. Hi Ptah!

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Jun 1, 2017, 03:49 PM

Jun 2017

I guess these will become giants as your sunflowers seen to do quite well.

Ptah

(33,024 posts)

6. This the first place I've been able to have a garden in six years.

Reply to denbot (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 2, 2017, 02:02 PM

Jun 2017

I hope they dwarf me soon, denbot.

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