I like to grow sunflowers too Ruth. I guess I like them 'cause there
big and beautiful AND tasty. I grew artichokes once. But the flower
was so pretty all the plants went to flower instead of fruit. But
normally, I like plants I can eat...or burn.
-jc
On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:51 PM, Ruth Barton wrote:
> For heaven's sake, it's enough bother shucking the seeds out of the
> sunflowers and toasting them without counting the spirals too!!!! Most
> years I grow some giant sunflowers at the ends of the rows in the
> vegetable
> garden but didn't do it last year. They will get probably 8-10' tall
> before they start to bend over. One year I had one break in a
> windstorm
> but it didn't break off completely so I staked it and taped and
> splinted
> the break and it went on to mature. A couple of years ago a lady
> stopped
> out front and asked if she could take a photo of them, of course I said
> yes. Don't know if they ended up on postcards for the city folk or
> what.
> Ruth
>
>
>
>
> At 12:44 PM -0800 2/3/05, Cuyler Page wrote:
>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> Nice chart. You are using the number series known as the Fibonacci
>> Series,
>> discovered by Middle Aged monk who loved matematics. The Fibonacci
>> Series
>> features numbers in which each is the sum of the preceding two.
>> Therefore,
>> you have to add another two units at the beginning, a "0" and a "1"
>> to make
>> the series perfect. After all, the Universe had to begin with the
>> big
>> yawn, and then there was One, w
>> To really make Ralph steam, go count the spiral rows of seeds in a
>> sunflower. Count both left and right spirals. One will be 34 and
>> the
>> other will be 55. Been there, done that. It works. Obviously
>> you don't
>> believe anything you can't do yourself.
>>
>> cp in bc
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