Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

A field up the road from me, about a minute away, has a patch of sunflowers. Funny how they turn with the sun.

These pictures are from Aug 9/24

Noel

MattA wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 8:46 pm David your sunflowers look great. Do you know what variety you planted? How far did you space those out?

We planted two types, smaller ones about my height with red flowers and the one you see in the picture . I will have to ask her what there called .

Well the can't remmeber what kind they are other than she got the seeds at Walmart .

DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:18 pm Well the can't remmeber what kind they are other than she got the seeds at Walmart .

No worries. I'll probably plant the american giant sunflowers lowes had next year. Last years sunflower grew to about 8'.

It amazes he how the sunflowers keep growing despite being broken over. They somehow manage to grow vertical toward the sun again.

@DavidBarkey your sunflower are awesome!

We ended up with a fairly nice stand. This variety ended up being between 3 to 5 feet tall. They are done for the year now but that was by design. I planted them with the hope they would be ready for Mourning Doves to eat in the fall and they are right on time. Here is a picture from a few weeks ago. I need to collect some of the seeds for the chickens then mow the some off for the birds, doves like them on the ground.

I’m thinking if I plant again next year I would like to try a mixed patch with some bigger one like you have.

A face book picture I saw yesterday.

Noel

Ours are 12-1/2ft tall. Heavy rain knocked a few down.
My 561 for comparison. It would be nice if the flowers were comparatively big!

Wow! @FUTZ seeing the height of those sunflowers - you could almost believe the "Jack and the Bean Stock" fairy tale

Looking good Futz
Forum record?
Google says the world record is 30'1" (9.17m).

FUTZ wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 7:59 am Ours are 12-1/2ft tall. Heavy rain knocked a few down.
My 561 for comparison.
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It would be nice if the flowers were comparatively big!

Holly crap Ian . you got couple of foot on mine .