Summer Of Sunflowers - How is your Sunflower Growing?

 How’s your garden growing?
 Our ‘Summer of Sunflowers’ is on and we’d love to see how your getting on with your growing!
 Get in the garden and show us how the children’s sunflowers are coming along. Remember - we want your family to grow the TALLEST Sunflower possible, and if you win, you’ll get a brand-new balance or childs biked subject to age from Chris's Cycles, Evenjobb.

If you’ve planted one of our official seed packs, then send in your photos using our FACEBOOK PAGE or the FORM below and maybe tell us your secret growing tips!

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SUMMER OF SUNFLOWER – CONTEST RULES
1.    The Summer of Sunflowers contest is open from Wednesday 7th May 2025 and is open to participants living within the Sunshine Radio transmission area for the duration of 6 weeks or until all seed envelopes have been collected.
2.    You can be young at heart to enter, but you must be up to 16 years old to win.
3.    Official seed packets are available from the locations listed above.
4.    Only seeds provided by Sunshine Radio are to be used in the contest.
5.    Retain seed packet as proof of entry as this will be required for the final.
6.    Final measuring for the entrants must take place in the week of August 18th 
7.    Judging will take place at the locations of the 3 tallest sunflowers .
8.    Participants must make themselves available for judging on the above dates or risk forfeiting their place in the final. 
9.    Participants are encouraged to send in photos as part of their entry into the final.
10.     The final prize will be awarded to the tallest sunflower as measured from soil point to the highest possible stem point by the judges and only the judges.
11.     The judge’s decision is final.
12.     Sunshine Radio retains the right to substitute the prize in the event of problems with the supplier.
13.     Multiple entrants from the same address will be disqualified.
14.     Sunshine Radio reserves the right to disqualify any entrant deemed to have cheated in line with the Stations’ general contest T’s & C’s found here: https://www.sunshineradio.co.uk/general-contest-rules/ 
15.    Prize is a brand new Childrens’ Bicycle or Balance Bike, which must be collected from Chris’s Cycles, Evenjobb.