Growing Sunflowers For Seeds
Sow one seed per 75cm pot.
Growing sunflowers for seeds. You can plant sunflower seeds with a minimum of time and preparation. How to grow sunflowers how to plant sunflowers. Plant your seeds at the beginning of summer when the soil is warm. Planting sunflower seeds in the spring can be a fun activity for adults and children.
Until then here are a few pictures of the flowers my seedlings produced last year. Before you grow sunflowers find a plot that gets full sun is sheltered from the wind and has good drainage. Sunflowers are sun worshipers that grow best in spots that get six to eight hours of direct sun per day. Sunflowers helianthus annuus is an annual plant with a large daisy like flower faceits scientific name comes from the greek words helios sun and anthos flowerthe flowers come in many colors yellow red orange maroon brown but they are commonly bright yellow with brown centers that ripen into heavy heads filled with seeds.
Growing sunflowers from seeds. Push the seed 15cm into the compost and water in. I hope youve found some helpful tips on how to grow sunflowers from seeds. Sunflowers are very popular because of their beauty and because they are easy to grow.
Sunflowers are annual plants that produce large or small yellow flowers in the summer. When youre ready to plant put seeds in 1 inch deep holes that are 6 18 inches apart depending on the type of sunflower youre growing. Sow sunflower seeds into individual pots of peat free multi purpose compost in april. Previous sunflower seed successes.