Growing Sunflower Seeds
Previous sunflower seed successes.
Growing sunflower seeds. The brown middle of the sunflower will mature into a seed head after the petals fall off. Growing sunflowers from seeds. Until then here are a few pictures of the flowers my seedlings produced last year. You can harvest them and eat them seeds make a nutrient rich snack or save the seeds to replant next years garden.
To grow sunflowers you need a sunny sheltered spot and a good soil add plenty of well rotted manure or garden. Growing sunflowers from seed. Sunflowers are annual plants that produce large or small yellow flowers in the summer. What we know as sunflower seeds are really the plants fruit which are arranged on the plants head in spirals.
Grow your own sunflower seeds to have a ready supply of a crunchy nutrient dense snack. Planting sunflower seeds in the spring can be a fun activity for adults and children. You can plant sunflower seeds with a minimum of time and preparation. Sunflowers and their seeds have been used in sun worship as an aphrodisiac to make purple dye to feed humans and livestock and as a medicine and for biodiesel.
I will continue to update this post as my seedlings start to grow. Sunflowers are easy to grow from seed and are ideal for growing with childrenthey can grow to heights of up to two metres bear impressive long lasting flowers and look fantastic in gardens and allotmentsthey make an excellent cut flower. I hope youve found some helpful tips on how to grow sunflowers from seeds. Generally sunflower seeds are started directly in the garden.
A traditional sunflower head has up to 1200 seeds. Sunflowers are very popular because of their beauty and because they are easy to grow.