Bad year for Sunflowers?

[Leeds_lad]

Anybody else having problems with Sunflowers this year? They are growing yes, but are not very tall AND seem to have started to grow out a flowers!

The seed I grew these from game from over an 8 foot plant I had last year, which was the only variety I grew. This year they have barely reached 3 feet.

[Two_Sheds]

Bad year for everything my friend.

I just said to Mr TS: "this day last year we released the (home grown) butterflies: this year we've not even seen a butterfly, let alone a caterpillar"

[rustylady]

Don't know about sunflowers, but it's been a pretty bad year for most things.

[rustylady]

Bad year for everything my friend.

I just said to Mr TS: "this day last year we released the butterflies: this year we've not even seen a butterfly, let alone a caterpillar"

I have seen butterflies today in the garden. First time this year.

[Maryellemints]

yeah it didnt look so good for me this year :/

[Alison]

My sunflowers all got slugged so I don't have any at all

[salome2001]

i lost 2 russian giants to the wind a few weeks back, of the three remaining (coddled in the conservatory until the gales subsided) one is just over 6ft, one about 5.5ft and one just about my head height at 5ft2. The smallest one has opened its flower!

[salome2001]

My sunflowers all got slugged so I don't have any at all

i left the two snapped ones in the pots outside, the other night they were COVERED in snails. I left them there as sacrificial decoys and hoped my courgette would be left alone.

[SarzWix]

I was just looking at the sunflowers at school today and thinking 'Come oonnnnn!' cos they are very small, only about a foot high, and I wanted them to flower before the school holidays! But as T_S and Rusty Lady said, it's a bad year for almost everything this year

[areia]

got 3 russian giants left out of 8, first lot bush ones didtn even germinate the second lot i got 5 for which all got slugged, so yup not a gd yr

[GardenFaery]

Let's put it this way... I planted out a sunflower the other day and it closed up as if to say "But it's July where's the sun?!" think humans and plants feeling similat this year?

[Kittypickle]

Mine are still ungerminated in the ground.

[Two_Sheds]

i left the two snapped ones in the pots outside, the other night they were COVERED in snails. I left them there as sacrificial decoys and hoped my courgette would be left alone.

A trap is good, but you'll have to dispose of the snails that you find, otherwise all you're doing is feeding them, which makes them breed more ...

Mine are still ungerminated in the ground.

Well, mine are now 18" tall and have to be individually staked as it's so windy still

[Paulottie]

Anybody else having problems with Sunflowers this year?

I think the clue may be in the name...no sun=no flowers.