A quick update in my performance todate in the Manchester sunflower and marrow growing competition:
Sunflower - I suspect the QA/QC in Mr Fothergills seed department was a bit dodgy - everyone was issued with a "Giant" variety but there have been wide ranging results including sunflowers flowere at less than a metre. In my row the range is astonishing - short and tall, forked double headed ones, some showing one flower, some dozens. Still there you go.
Anyway, as winning is everything - I seem to have a contender at 2.40m and still growing. Trumps Al's at 1.97 at latest account - maybe rain is good for sunflowers!
Marrows are rubbish - grow to 10cm, become rotten from flower end and fall off. Will start nurturing them soon - competition date is no until end of September so plenty of time yet
That marrow rot could be lack of pollination - get in there and tickle the female with a paintbrush having first rubbed up the male.
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