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Re: Sunflowers

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katherine  I live in umm zone 3 some years seems like zone two  under the
best codition we barely have enough warmth for tomatoes and such so we do
have to be concerned about shading in your area it may be helpful

tho i am starting to wonder this year looks like i may want to shade my warm
crops for a change.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katherine Wendt" <katherine@datawizsolutions.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: Sunflowers


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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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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