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I know it's possibly a bit early to be classed as a winner but my biggest seedling is about two inches now.

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I like a challenge! and luckily I am a bit vertically challenged as well!!!

also have a fuschia challenge with my son.

will be going through bird seed when I get back home!!!

Right, Madmax, Aranthos, myself and younger son (not yet a grape) will take part. I have some sunflower seeds from bird food and some from gerbil food. I will note which are which to compare flowers later on (if I manage to grow a blooming sunflower for the first ever time). Great suggestion!

Can't wait for my cut out Wayne!!

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

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Sounds like fun - I'm in too. Will sort through the bird seed when I get back from relaxing weekend visiting MIL

Right - now off to get birdseed at t'weekend. Have to keep it a bit quiet as the OH doesn't agree with large sunflowers - so I think my plan'll be to plant the red ones coming from realseed; and smuggles a few birdseed ones in the mix.

Hope he doesn't read this on the QT...

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Andrea :wavehello

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moon trial underway with onions, lettuce, tomatoes and calabrese.

This sounds fun! Please count me in too.

was goin to give up on sunflowers as the slugs just chomp straight through them but I do love to grow something from from nothing, can I join in? need to start collecting eggshells and other spikey stuff to combat the dreaded slimey creatures

LOL, here it is the cat that breaks them - he has to rub on every flippin thing in the garden!

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

Bought some posh table seed this morning and have fished out some fat sunflower seeds for sowing later this weekend.

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Was wondering about this too. The nuthatches keep knicking the sunflower seeds and burying them, so some of them might grow. But will also join in the challenge.

Bought some buyd seed this weekend that had sunflower seeds in it. Put them into recycled vending cups in the propagator, lets see...

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated - 25th August

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I'm up for this.

Any ideas on when the official closing date is going to be?

oh oh, me too! Can i play? Off to the garden centre with me this week so get some bird seed!

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keen but clueless

Im in too - just need to scrounge some seed. Ive already sown some sunflower seeds
from packet and have 3 little seedlings. So also got compariston plants.

Mine were sowed at the weekend. :-)

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I wish i could make a yo-yo work.
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I suggest when we change the clocks again, or will the weather be too rough by then..?

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I wish i could make a yo-yo work.
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I'm in..love growing sunflowers..

Should be interesting..

Geo..

hmmmm growing from bird seed, last year i left a bag of bird seed out * i got side tracked and forgot * in the morning it had been dragged up the garden, bag emtpied, in my vain attempt to clear up the mess i of course could not pick up every seed, in the end i had 2 plants growing rather nicely in my veg patch, got some raised eyebrows at the plant growing in front of the sunflower, but no boys in blue knocked one my door would of been fun though, so needless to say bird seed no longer in plastic bag just a tin wont be making the same mistake again, im up for the sunflower challenge though

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Oo, count me in- just got a load o' free horse manure, that should help! Already have several (free) packet seedlings on the go- can't see them doing too well as they've already got some kind of infestation in the leaves- larvae of some kind I think?
Good luck all!

i have a tub full of various sunflower seeds, i grew one in the front garden which got 12 feet tall... i came home one day and someone cut of all the heads and stole them lol, i guess they must have really liked them.. all they had to do is knock on my door and just ask for them it would have been my pleasure to give them away for free,,

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"Be like the flower that gives its fragrance even to hands that crush it" -Hazrat Ali.

Mine are at about 12" high now and thankfully slug damage free. How are you guys doing?

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Kindest regards, David.

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updated at last - Saturday 9th at 2040hrs

I'm about the same as you pw. I've risked placing mine outside the rabbit perimeter fence, although they are protected by wire mash and surrounded by slug pellets.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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Sounds like good fun count me in too!!