I decided to harvest a few sunflowers today. I'm having problems with the moneymaker tomatoes and I was wondering if the sun flowers were blocking too much light. So with my toddler apprentice in tow, off I went to chop a few down. I managed to keep all falling flowers off the toddler, so that …
We took down the giant sunflower to make way for other things to be planted in the bed (tomatoes, carrots, basil and lettuce). Once it was down, we could finally measure it properly. Before we were measuring by standing next to it, sticking our hands in the air, and trying to see how much distance …
That's how tall my very tall sunflower is. It's getting a bit of a lean from all the flowers on it. The seed company I got the seeds from said it should grow between 1.8 and 2.4 metres tall, so it's quite an overachiever.
I did think of a witty pun for the title earlier in the day but I've forgotten it by now. That's the way it goes. I got my garden off to a bit of a late start this year, and grasshoppers took care of my carefully planted on time basil, so we're off to a …
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