March 2007

March 30, 2007, it was in the morning I took these pictures. It was a Friday morning at the least. Growth sure is showing and it is a brilliant sight to see! Well here is an overall view looking at the west. My Paul Bunyan Sunflowers are growing pretty good too,

though you cannot really picture them in these photos. My Common Sunflowers are what many show be looking at, since this is really showing rapid growth!! My combo mix has a variety of sunflowers. Three different types with one of each of a total of

eight. I'm also starting to use much of my compost pile soil. It is looking great too. I'm seeing some good soil at the bottom that I'm using all around my Paul Bunyan's. My Paul Bunyans are on the left side of my Common Sunflowers.

Now I wanted to focus on my combo section of my Sunflower Garden. This section currently will hold three different types of Sunflowers. Each of them will hold 8 sunflowers: firstly will be the red section. Here you will be seeing German Sunflowers, these are beautiful since they perfectly create a very light green color in the middle of the sunflower!
Next will be blue, These are my Florida Connection I traded awhile back, They are the burgundy variety, VERY DEEP Purplish reddish...

Additionally, and Finally, the white section is Aztec Gold Sunflowers that grow around 5-6ft tall, but with perfectly shaped heads. I love this type, since it was one of my first sunflowers I was growing when I was around 10 or 11 years of age.

March 24th, 2007 it hit 80 degrees today, but before I took this photo inside my garden it was a cool 50 degrees. I wanted to water my garden, but I thought again. Forecasters are saying we will have a pretty good size storm coming monday afternoon.

Additionally with strong to severe thunderstorms! We will have to wait and see what really happens. I just hope it rains pretty good, enough that soaks the ground well.
As you can see pretty well here, my Common Sunflowers are growing at a alarming rate! The green growth is going strong, but suddenly I am having a horrible problem with earwigs eating my foliage. They are not out during the day, but during the night there are more than 50 bugs all over the place on the top of my plants eating the leaves away! It's more at the back near the white building where they are eating my sunflowers. Over here to the front no bugs have come near here. I soon hope to have my chickens feasting on these darn bugs.

March 18, 2007 The high today was 78 degrees and my soil is defiantly showing signs of drying up. It is certainly drying up pretty quickly. So this morning around 10am in the morning,

on this Sunday morning I went to my garden for a long period of soaking for my sunflowers seedlings. They are growing pretty fast now I have been noticing much more growth occurring. Kind of worried though since this still march and we are getting warm temperatures.

Usually we are suppose to be in the upper 60s, yet we are at upper 70s to lower 80s. Although this mild spring is showing life all around me. Just look at this overall view of my backyard. The grass is growing quickly and getting green very quickly!! My white dog just sitting waiting for me to come out of my garden, but I didn't really get out from my garden for a long while. I let the water run on my Common sunflowers as seen on the right hand side photo. This was my deep soaking watering for the week as I will not be watering all this week. Forecasters are predicting that temperatures will start to moderate a bit and additionally some clouds, but no rain. If you look very closely (if you have good eyes) on the fence's shadow, you can see seedlings. Those seedlings are Paul Bunyan sunflowers. They currently only receive afternoon sun and morning shade, but that will all change soon. Hey we are barely in march. The sun will no stop moving up north until June! I hoping for big ones this year since I spaced them 2ft apart this year.

Back to my common sunflowers. They are so bunched up, it's a pretty site to see! I'll tell you that! it is so green and lush, I just cannot wait until I starting having a Sunflower forest. Those will be the great summer days I do enjoy the most since It's so private!

March 14, 2007, The high today was 75 degrees and my Common Sunflowers are defiantly starting to show signs of fast growing! I now know that the race has begun! This is where the strongest sunflower will be fighting for the right of space. I never space out my Common Sunflowers since they are wild and they do this on their own. What they do is, believe it or

not, but fight for the sky high space. Simple as I can put it... It's such an enjoying time to see this, although I'm quiet worried to what may come ahead as it is too warm for this time of the year! Usually we are suppose to be in the mid to upper 60's. Average is now 66 degrees! Yesterday we hit a record high of 84 degrees! So I feel a little worried about the summer ahead!! Not a very good thought! Anyways, this photo here is one that should be looked closely. As you can see here on the left side of this photo I got my Irises starting to show buds. This may be the first year I will be receiving more than 7 blooms!!! I am very happy at the least! As soon as I start seeing life of opening development I will surely post! I think by the weekend there is light ahead. Okay, to the far, far upper right corner, DO YOU SEE GREEN?
Any guesses on what's that?....

Of course your right! It's my Common Sunflowers. I took these photos when the sun was starting to

set now. It was around 6:55pm, I have been watering pretty well now and I know that the water is making a difference! Since I did a comparison of Sunflowers that are not receiving any water and they look a bit smaller and not growing as quickly. I also want to NOTE, that I am using Miracle-Gro to water my plants. I know that the stuff is addictive to plants, so I must keep doing this every 14 days. I do not mind at all though. I am also using Algro-Flash which is some very good stuff that really does work! Well anyways, to close this off. I want you to enjoy these photos of closeups of the sunflowers! It is simply a amazing site!
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March 8, 2007, The high temperature was 65 degrees. It wasn't that warm today, we are expected some upper 70s by the end of the weekend to next week.

Which I cannot wait for!
Well I wanted to roll back into my garden to see the action that is currently taking shape. It's action that is only seen through spring and it is when all my seeds from the ground start sprouting at a intense rate that even I cannot take hold of! It is pretty amazing to see all these sprouts take shape to tell you the truth it gets better and better every year! I believe that each year I get more and more sunflowers appearing in my garden. I love to see this as it shows that I am taking care of my sunflowers very well! Additionally it adds a pretty site since from far away it looks like grass is growing,

but look closely it's all SUNFLOWER SPROUTS. Here in this green patch is where I allow all my common sunflowers to grow. They are the ones that grow to over 15ft tall and have so many heads. When I took this picture it was already around 5pm in the afternoon and the sun was setting quickly so I took these photos very quick. Also as you can see in the background my chickens are greatly appreciating the green grass growth that is quickly coming up now.

Also if you look very closely, far away at the ends of my garden you can see my daffodils appearing as well... Haven't taken any

photos of them since I feel so interested currently in my sunflower growth that is taking place.

As you can see now I'm facing west, just another AMAZING VIEW to show all!
Enjoy!

March 6, 2007, Today in Stockton we reached 76 degrees! Warmest this year so far! It sure does feel good! I added some Paul Bunyan sunflower seeds in my little homemade bio-dome I created and in three days they sprouted! It was pretty nice to see that the warm sun is doing it's job and quick!! I'm surprised how many of my seedlings are thriving and growing so

quickly!! Well this photo here shows Paul Bunyan sunflowers growing pretty well on the side of my house. Remember, well they are two inches high now and already showing the third set of leaves! There are 9 sunflowers planted in a row here. They receive currently only just around 4-5 hours of sun, but soon they will be getting much more than that! I still haven't got to water these babies yet even though we finally getting some warm weather here. I can't wait to see much more to what may come soon! Hope you enjoy this picture. It is defiantly one of my favorites!

Here is a better view, just a little higher as you can see the small line of sunflowers that will be growing here. Even though they may not get at least 8 hours of sun from the ground as they get taller they get the sun and get much more than 9 hours of sun!.... It's great knowing that there are houses in between. If you watched my journal last

year over at Gardener's Helpers(link on the top left hand corner) then you know what I'm talking about!

March 1st, 2007, Today we reached a high of 57 Degrees and it sure was a beautiful day. Forecasters are saying that we will be headed to a small warming trend. Tomorrow will be upper 60s and we haven't seen that for a while. That will be good news to all my Sunflower Seedlings that need the soil to be warm. Warmer soil leads to faster growth! We will wait and see

what is to show by the end of the weekend. Today is Thursday, hopefully by Monday there will be some news to tell. Currently my garden is doing just fine! My Calla Lilies are still worrying me as they are still light greenish leaves! My raised garden bed is show showing a great deal of action! We are now starting to see over 500 seedlings bursting everywhere! This is surely the best time of year to view this. Since I will now be measuring the fastest growers. The fastest ones will be the ones that have HIGH potentials! This picture shown here of an over all view of my garden shows on the left side a kind of green look to the soil while on the right is where my Paul Bunyans will be planted. Thirty sunflowers will be planted on the right side....

Here is a closer look at my sprouting common Sunflowers that reoccur themselves every year!
It's always a wonderful site to see the beauty of all the soft tender leafs come out. Looks like grass from far away, but it is SUNFLOWERS.

Sun Flowers in a California garden

Watch this sunflower GROW!

March 2007

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