NICHOLAS WATTS CHECKING HIS CROP OF SUNFLOWERS ON HIS FARM SPALDING,LINCS,WHICH ARE NOW IN PERFECT CONDITION TO BE HARVESTED
FARMER NICHOLAS WATTS CHECKING HIS CROP OF SUNFLOWERS ON HIS FARM NEAR SPALDING,LINCS,WHICH ARE NOW IN PERFECT CONDITION TO BE HARVESTED THIS WEEK AFTER THE RECENT WARM WEATHER. It looks like this brown crop at Britain's biggest sunflower farm has been ruined - but in fact the six million blooms are in perfect condition to be Nicholas Watts is expecting a bumper crop of seeds from his 160 acres of black sunflowers, which thrived in this year's sunny summer is now making the most of the Indian summer to cut down the dried-up plants, whose seeds will be turned into 140 tonnes of bird comes after he lost his entire crop of sunflowers last year due to the washout summer, which made 2012 the second wettest on record."We are taking advantage of the Indian summer to pull in the harvest as the plants have to be completely dry for the combine harvester to work," said Nicholas, 70, of Vine House Farm in Spalding, Lincolnshire."The harvest is about 10 days late this year because we had a cold Spring, which meant the flowers were late blooming.
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Location: SPLADING LINCOLNSHIRE UK
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