Reply to mojo: Yes, try and keep the plants for another year. If you can provide frost-free conditions then peppers can be kept growing for more than one year.
I'm sure many others will be in the same position as you this year. I haven't found it a good one for chilli peppers, so will definitely be keeping my plants through winter.
Hello, Plzzzz help me!! My daughter came home from nursery with a Sun flower which has been lovely to see it grow but in the past weeks it has had little black spots on it's leafs. The leafs looks fine to start with but then goes a yellow ish colour with the black/brown spots and it does not look very happy at all. Thank you Nikki x
Have inherited a Yucca growing in large outdoor pot. Very dead clump of leaves on top tall trunk which I have cut off about half way down and a head of leaves which I think still have life in on a lower trunk. However there are 9 new shoots round the base of the trunk. What do I do with them please?
hi, i am currently growing a large sun flower which has reached about 7ft but still has'nt flowered,I've just noticed that a piece of cord i used to support it when it was small has cut right threw the base of the plant but it still seems to be growing. Should it still flower?
i have 8 sunflowers between 8 and 10 inches long in a bucket measuring 8 inches by 8 inches.will i have to transfere them to individual pots and will i have to support them with a bamboo stick or something similar?
Another feature of sunflowers are the spiral patterns you can see in the arrangement of seeds in the the seed head. There is some mathematics to it and it also makes sure that the inner seeds are not squashed in by the outer.The stems of the plants break up well for the compost heap too.
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I'm sure many others will be in the same position as you this year. I haven't found it a good one for chilli peppers, so will definitely be keeping my plants through winter.
I have just bought a new house. There are 2 sunflower plants currently in the garden, both of which are around 7' tall.
It is now late August - have they flowered yet ?? There are green flower heads but I'm not sure if they have been and gone so to speak.
A dumb question I know.
All advice / comment appreciated.
Thanks.
Have you got a photo of the flower heads?
If the green leafy looking bits round it meet in the middle it's not open yet.
If there's a flat middle and a leafy frill round it, it's over for flowering but leave the seeds for the birds
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