Re: Sunflowers - Tiger's Eye

 I live in western Oregon, so I assume we are in similar ecosystems.  My
experience here is that sunflowers have to be started indoors and kept
there until they are BIG (well, maybe 10-12" or so).  Have you tasted
sunflower sprouts in salads?  They're quite delicious, and the slugs
obviously agree!  Once they get some size on them, their stems are tougher
and apparently less tasty -- at that point the slugs tend to take one bite
out of the stem, but not cut it all the way through, then the slug moves on
to better fare and the plant survives, albeit with a funny-looking stem.
That's my experience, anyway.  Good luck!


At 11:50 AM 11/18/00 -0800, Diane Whitehead wrote:
>Last year I bought a package of Seeds of Change Tiger's Eye 
>sunflowers - the picture on the seed packet was very appealing.  I 
>haven't yet managed to see any actual flowers, but every once in a 
>while I admire the packet.  I don't know what the matter is.  The 
>seedlings just disappear, usually when they are very small. This year 
>I did manage to grow one very scrawny little plant (maybe 50 cm high) 
>to the point of having a bud, but then it was nipped off by a deer. 
>Has anyone, besides whoever grew the ones for the photo, been 
>successful with this?  I still have a few seeds left, and plan to try 
>again next year.
>
>Diane Whitehead   Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>
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