A diary shot but with a future. This is one of several shoots I have managed to get growing from sunflower seed. We have a competition in town - given seeds in the mail, grow them, measure them at a specific date some months later and win a prize. This is Sunflower 1 inch, 7/10/16. They mature late January.
Three good things:
1. Every time I look for a photo I learn something about my camera. Having had trouble with focusing, I turned a function off called ‘peaking level’ which seemed to outline the subject in white, red or yellow. I achieved better focus now.
2. Found 10 snails amongst my glass house plants and with great delight, dumped them in a container with water and Jeyes Fluid. Kills ‘em stone dead - snails eggs and all!
Well you are rather a executioner I reckon!! Sounds like you enjoyed it too! There are some very large brown snails in the south of England, I think they are Spanish & they are enormous & breeding like mad. You can go,out side in the morning & apparently they have reproduced about ten fold! Nasty big brown things! None round here yet but soreading upwards to the north of England!
Lovely little perky seedling, will watch the progress with interest! I have taken a liking to sunflowers all of a sudden. You see them in vases in posh shops, ours are all over pretty much now.
Beautiful shot of your sunflower beginnings. Can't wait to see the end results and in January they will be a welcome sight. Congratulations on killing the slugs and your egg sandwich sounds delicious
Great shot of the start of many weeks of growing and measuring -- hope no more snails appear and eat them -- I am also a great believer in Jeyes Fluid for all sorts of uses around the garden --I always think it has such a clean smell !!
@happypat I hate standing on snails, Pat - squishy and horrible and apparently you don't kill the snail's eggs that way either! I yet have to find somewhere to unload all the dead and smelly snails! The biggest step in the seedlings is transplanting them!
@maggiemae Actually Maggie I've just read I put snails but I meant slugs which is even worse! Yes transplanting is the delicate bit, you mustn't damage the roots!
Oh dear...snails without a chance of being immortalized on camera?? But I do like these little seedlings and am glad to see they have a chance to grow.
Love seeing the new growth. I believe that our snails are sought after as escargot! I am happy to collect the ones in my garden and send them off to France to be doused with garlic butter and be cooked.
Lovely little perky seedling, will watch the progress with interest! I have taken a liking to sunflowers all of a sudden. You see them in vases in posh shops, ours are all over pretty much now.
i need a photo of a seedling just like this for this week's five plus two theme! nice diary shot.