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Re: Sunflowers

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At 10:46 AM -0700 5/22/00, Wind Blown Rabbitry wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>I love sunflowers :)  This year instead of Russian Mammoth I am growing
>teddy bear sunflowers.  they will be used along the edge of my garden.   I
>am also going to be naughty and throw out some black oil sunflower seeds for
>the birds and maybe a small stand out side the fence.  May regret it later
>but my rabbits love those seeds and really enjoy munching the seed heads
>also.
>Tall as my Russian mammoth were they never seemed to make that dense a
>shade,  just kept the area a little cooler   they might keep your peas going
>a little longer as for the tomatoes and watermelon it depends on your
>climate.  Here any shade or form of cooling is not something we want for
>those heat lovers

Well I am in zone 6b near Washington DC and our summers get bloody hot and
humid. But the garden itself starts getting some shade at about 2:30 in the
afternoon. So I don't know how a heat-lover will do with this combination
of heat and shade.

Katherine Wendt
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