Sunflowers
This is certainly the year for sunflowers at our community gardens. It seems like everyone is growing them. I don’t remember seeing so many in past years. Kathy was just talking about this too.
I’m growing them too. In fact I’m growing a variety called Titan, that’s in the Guinness Book of World Records as producing the largest recorded Sunflower. In fact the plant was grown not too far from where I live in the Netherlands. I don’t think it’s a variety that’s commonly available here, so I’m curious how my sunflowers compares with the others. I planted mine a few weeks later than everyone else, so they aren’t flowering yet.
Below is someone obviously attempting the thankless task of trying to save some seeds from the birds. You can see he’s put bags of some sort over 2 of the flowers, and behind he built a scarecrow.
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i am growing black seeded sunflowers from Hungary, sourced from adaptive seeeds. They are only shoulder height and have massive heads, which I am very happy with as it is windy here and they usually fall over before they are ripe enough to harvest. Time to build a scare crow. Thanks for the reminder.