Using all of the sunflower plant is a great way to practice sustainability in the garden. Today I’ll show you how to use dried sunflower stalks to make garden teepees and grow vertical vines on them like peas and beans.
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50 Comments
I used them to make a teepee once. They looked sooo good until a storm came through and snapped em all. 🙁
Use it to build a spartan spear
very interesting. great for beans and peas. maybe even a walking stick
Good idea🤗
Whats sun?
Ain’t no one looking at those roses
This is good information for survival purposes
Yeah cool. Knew already. A uncle of mine had grew them when I was A teen. He grew garden of them. Around 16 feet of land for them.
How do you get them so big though? I planted the right seeds but they're still small. 😭
I do something similar with all the horseweed in my yard. I let it grow to 3 ft then pull it and leave it to rapidly dry and harden in the sun, then I got a bunch of garden sticks for whatever I need!
I love it! I have a field i’m planting sunflowers in & now I can dry the stalks out & use them as grow poles for my tropicals! Thank you & happy growing 🌼🌸🌻
Now I want weapons made for sunflowers 🌻
(Bonus points for an opal blade or arrowhead)
Nice!
Oak is harder
Thor is a farmer now? Wow…
I had no idea! Awesome. 👏
Cool man, thanks
You can make flour with the stalks too
Great ideas! 💡
My Dad used to beat me with that. What a beautiful memory.
You could try soaking them in lindseed oil to have them last longer.
Nope, after few rains they break fast, we were playing as kids with them.
Ok you are SUPER HOT LOOKING. GRRR
BS
Another shower scene please!
Amaranth makes a smaller version of this too.
I use mine to make my sweat pea teepee for the following summer. Looks amazing with the stalks.
Thanks, that's good to know, I have some of those growing in the alley behind the property my house sets on.
now i want a Bo-staff made from a sunflower
You can make flour from the inside of them
Never felt jealous of a sunflower until today 🌻 🦵🏼
mmm. Good stick. Perfect for the battle against mammoths.
dya reckon they would be ok for making bows out of or arrows ?
Handsome man
Amazing sunflower plant
This is definitely nice if you have access to land but I heard Bill Gates owns most of that so nice sunflowers mate
6 weeks for a stick
I have decided i am going to make a sunflower stalk SPEAR
My sunflower stalks are hallo so I can easily snap them
I immediately thought spear
Хах) всë детство это были мои мечи и посохи 😀 Я был Донателло из черепашек ниндзя с самой мощной палкой)
I only thought they were good for taking your anger out on
Have you noticed your sunflowers not facing the sun like normal
This is exactly what sustainability is all about 👍
They’re very very gerbil 🐹
So cool!
Great source for steam-shrunk engineered wood !
Lay the thinner dried stalks under plants like pumpkins to keep them from having direct contact with the soil too.
Three sisters, that's a dead version if the three sisters.
Great tip, OG.