On 21 Jun 2004 06:14:30 GMT, ospam (Rose)
wrote:

I have planted them before and want to plant them again but does anyone here
have a solution for sunflowers that (for lack of a better word) flop over?

I would love to plant them again!

Hi Rose,

If they flop over, carefully pull them backup straight and
stomp down the side that was tipped up. Now get your hoe out
and mound dirt up and around them, maybe 6-10 inches deep.
That should keep'em in place ;-) The sooner you can tip them
back up the better. Don't wait too long...

You can always be preemptive and mound them up before they
tip over too. I usually wait until a few tip, because in
some years it isn't a problem. Usually a heavy rain with big
gusts of wind tip mine over. The rain saturates the soil and
then the wind does the rest.

Maybe you have been watering them a bit much and the soil is
saturated? Sunflowers seem to do quite well with just the
water Mother Nature provides. I only water mine a bit after
transplanting volunteers and they look all droopy.

See the following link for a few images.

http://www.iserv.net/~lfisk/

The sunflowers on the ends of the rows and the ones standing
alone by themselves rarely if ever tip over. The constant
buffeting they get from the wind encourages them to grow a
more substantial root system.

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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