please help
kris 1990
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Hi have recently landscaped my garden in my new house it was a real mess.
well I have grown a stunning lawn and I have put flower bed on the opposite side of the garden.
I have compost it about 1 foot deep with miracle grow compost. peat free. and on the other half I have used the same compost to the same depth but mixed it with some miracle grow farmers manure.
well I decided to plant two stunning sunflowers they stand at about 6 inches high. well they have lasted two days and now they look awful the heads have started to shrivel up and leaves have started turning yellow. and I am gutted.
one is planted in the compost/manure mix. the other is planted in just the compost and the same has happened to both.
I am new to gardening but I love it so if some one could tell me where im going wrong that would be great.
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In this heat it would need really well watered, every day. You never know, with tonnes of water they may come back
Did you grow them from seed, or put the plants in 2 days ago? If it helps, sunflowers hate to be moved and if you did move them 2 days ago, it may just have been too hot? And yeah, they like a little bit of tough love with the soil quality, not too rich.
Could the manure have been too fresh?
Shop-bought compost contains very little fertilizer, not that such small sunflowers need fertilizer yet.
The main thing with sunflowers is to protect them from slugs.