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Posted: May 05 2008 at 12:42pm | IP Logged Quote CandaceC
Ok, ladies, I am SO excited because we planted our sunflower fort and actually have sunflowers growing! LOL!

Now, for these "mammoth" sunflowers, which are supposed to be 6 feet tall, do I need to do anything to them as they get taller? Will they tip over and break? Am I supposed to tie them to anything?

Right now I have 1 that is nearly 1 ft tall and the rest are a few inches behind that one...I want to make sure I don't kill them at this stage! We get so excited when we got out and see them getting taller and taller!!

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Last year I grew sunflowers with my daughter (12) and step daughter (6). We didn't make them into forts, but we did measure them weekly and record it to make a graph. We also took photos of my step daughter and her dad with them - she really enjoyed seeing the flowers grow taller than her.
Sunflowers are so much fun because they grow SO fast and do well without a lot of attention. We didn't stake our flowers at all, I think we only had one or two go down after a hard Oklahoma rain
If I remember right, seems like toward the end of the growing season is when I thought maybe we should have staked them to make them last longer. We also had a beautiful bright yellow finch that would come almost every afternoon and snack on the seeds!
Enjoy your sunflowers!

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We never stake ours!

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Posted: May 06 2008 at 9:09pm | IP Logged Quote CandaceC
Thanks, ladies!!



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