In this video, I will show you how to grow sunflowers at home from seed. Sunflowers are an easy to grow, happy flower that does well in a variety of conditions.
In this video, I will show you how to grow sunflowers at home from seed. Sunflowers are an easy to grow, happy flower that does well in a variety of conditions.
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Me: Step 1: throw sunflower seeds on the ground.
Congratulations, you have now grown 13 ft sunflowers that reach the roof of your house.
Sunflowers are my favorite too. I have some getting ready to get blooms on some now.
Last year I roasted some sunflower heads while the seeds were still white. Lots of garlic and olive oil, and it was delish! What's not delish with garlic and olive oil? When my kids were small and I had a large garden I would plant the mammoth sunflowers in a large circle and then plant pole beans at the base of each once they started getting some height. I would tie the mature blossoms together at the top to create a teepee, which also kept them from leaning way over, and the beans would climb up and were easy to harvest and shaded the inside of the teepee for the children. I left a gap for a doorway. Good times.
I have 8 growing right now.
Sunflowers are nearly impossible for me to grow. The minute they emerge, something chews it off. I’ve pretty much given up…
Love sunflowers! But shasta daisies are my happy flower
Brian help!!!! I have a very large garden using raised beds, Grass Roots living soil grow bags, 1/2 wine barrels, GreenStalk verticals gardens, and large planter/pots. My raised beds have drip and some of my pots but I have several pots/wine barrels/grow bags that do not. I water those by hand every day until I run drip to them. Here is the problem. I am finding the soil is not maintaining moisture and I have to actuall grab and rough up the soil several inches deep while watering so the plants get some water. We are into triple digits and many of the plants are suffering. When I planted all the plants in the pots and grow bags, the soil was completely hydrated and I don’t understand why the dirt is becoming hydrophobic. Can you help?
It will be so beautiful with all the Sunflowers. Thanks for sharing Brian.🌻
You mentioned frost but what about heat? Living in Louisiana we already are having 100 days can you plant now?
I have a single Shock-O-Lat plant this year (I gave the others that I started to my daughter for her garden as sunflowers are her FAVORITE flower). It has many flowers but they are small and never even open fully before closing back up again. None have fallen off and I haven't pried them open to see what's going on in there but I highly doubt there are any seed heads forming. What did I do wrong? They are in a raised bed with mulch, fertilized and watered regularly. NC zone 7b.
You also said you were going to run another drip line to water them. I'm trying to design the drip system for my garden but I don't know how many feet of 1/4" drip emitter tubing I can run on a single hose valve. Is there a website you can recommend to help me figure this out? TIA
I had tall sunflowers that were blooming one year that needed to be staked. While figuring out what to use, the squirrels had a blast destroying every plant by stripping off the flowers and eating them! So much for that.
thankyou, i had no idea there were so many varieties
So easy to plant and grow… all volunteers this year. but i have yet to see one to maturity. Some critter keeps destroying them, knocking them to the ground and chewing on the stalk. Not sure who the guilty party is but i have a few suspects 🦝🦫🐿️🐀🐇
My happy flowers are roses sunflowers are not as popular here in Australia as they are in the US. When I see those beautiful coloured scented blooms in my garden it makes me happy and the birds don’t eat them.
Pansies n roses r my happy flowers! Love the 'fantasia' faces of pansies n the,scent of a Mr Lincoln or Neil Diamond rose can just make me forget my troubles. Have 2 volunteer sunflowers. Both facing west n both grew down along grd for about 3 ft b4 popping up about 3 ft n their stalks r al.ost 2 inches in diameter. Didnt expect them so didnt notice either one til they were ready 2 flower.
I’ve got sunflowers seedlings growing! And okra! So excited to see these grow and bloom.
Buttercups! They have the promise of warmer weather.
Can't wait to see your sunflowers grow! I also think daisies are happy flowers.
First year I planted some. They are beautiful.
I had a bad experience last year. Cut worms destroyed my plants. They were about 8-10 inch high at the time. One day they were there, the next morning, the stem had been cut at soil level. Luckily it was early enough in the season I was able to start other plants. Now I wrap the bottom of the stem in foil to protect them.
You can also grind the sunflower seeds like corn and make a flour out of them. Lots of fiber.
I leave the sunflowers out until the birds pick them clean. Then it’s a mystery of where they grow the next year. I let the birds do all the work.
I found out they are cold tolerant .. they did fine with frost cloth.. planted in April.. 6a, I spaced them 4-6 inch's apart and they were so cute!
Lisa from The Gardener's workshop taught me that. I grow them for bouquets.
I made the mistake last year of planting them in my raised garden beds. They averaged 12 to 15 feet tall and shaded all my veggies. I used every part of the sunflowers though. I washed and sliced the leaves for stir fry, I cut open the trunks took out the white part, dehydrated it and made sunflower flour, used the petals for tea and gave most of the seeds to the chickens. Love sunflowers, just not in my raised beds.
Thanks, Brian! Love the varieties you've planted.
I'm growing them for the first time. The two I have are growing super tall and haven't bloomed yet but seem to be getting there.
I didn't plant any sunflowers this year, but have at least a dozen growing. I was pulling up hundreds of 'weeds' before i figured out what they were. 😂
Thank you!
They even have some dwarf varieties. Pretty sure the sungold is one of them. I container garden & ive grown the big ones & the dwarfs.