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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