Saturday, August 10, 2019

Sunflowers & More Flowers

What will it look when those sunflowers seeds are planted in the correct spacing of 24 inches, instead of having them planted 5 inches apart? It wont be as good as this on picture. Gap is too wide for 2 ft. spacing from each other. There's not enough space for 100 sunflower seedlings.

Those sunflowers are planted for certain purpose and aim I want to or wished before.  If your sunflowers are bigger or larger than my sunflowers then that's good. It's not a matter of contest if the sunflower seedlings came from the seedlings I had. If I will have to plant sunflowers again? I wont follow the 2 ft. space gap. Maybe if I have 5 acre field and use those sunflowers as maze, why not. Sunflowers are not corn, zea maize...definitely not for rats.

Sometimes following directions only served purpose in schools, at the workplace but if you are at home and you are the gardener and you know how those sunflowers yield as it was exactly been experimented before and the outcome was printed at the back of the sunflower sachet/pocket. When you know already what will happen. To know the unexpected is something we have to know.

Planting sunflowers on not so fertile soil with gravels and grass without fish compost. Plants planted on incorrect spacing, will the sunflowers yield? Not giving enough liquid fertilizer of not enough water do you think sunflowers will yield? No sunshine? There's plenty of water and sunshine. I followed the use of fertilizer not to overuse it.  Actually used fertilizer once in 2 weeks. Maybe other people used fertilizer twice per week. Plant food? It depends.

Think of humans who are not helped. Think of humans without getting the basic necessities to grow and nobody else to turn to. Think of some humans without getting anything from anybody. Think of people without life support.

Did the sunflowers grew up to 10 ft. not 12 ft. tall in height? Did the sunflowers yield and blossomed beautiful flowers the size of 14 inches in size across the stem? The stems of the sunflowers in the pictures are just 2-3 inches thick not as fat as other sunflower's stem. Do the sunflowers look healthy even if its not tall enough? 12 ft. tall sunflowers are good enough. They don't need to have a spacing of 2 ft. just because it is stated in the sachet. Do I want a 14 inches size flower? No. I want to have sunflowers with sunflower that I can photograph for my collection of flowers. Obsession with different species of flowers is just a matter of passing time, killing time and to keep busy. Nothing's wrong with gardening if the yield is brighter and the photographs end up so great. Just like that, no pressure, no stress. If its an added valued pressure then the hell with it. Time to plant another floral that will give me satisfaction for my photography.

Let me tell you it's just FLOWERS. I didn't mean to have a contest on stress and pressure. So, chill. 

MORE FLOWERS!!





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