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imafan26 wrote:Hand watering is fine if you have the time and dicipline to do it.

There is a person who is coming to my house everyday except Friday to water my plants and clean my yards [and sometimes my car too]

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It sounds like the gardener you hired did know what he was doing. He amended and pulled the weed and fertilized before planting. Different plants have different needs for water and it depends on how well your soil drains. The soil in the pots will not be the same as the one in the garden. Some of t...

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An update: I hired or brought one person who is experienced in gardening [not a master or top experienced, but he was doing gardening or farming for almost 5-6 years] and I asked him to prepare my garden on the area you know about, and he did prepared it good enough, I am not sure his way is good or...

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I am not good in calculating things, I just grow so I can save little money of what I buy, it may not save me much for one year or even two, but sure for long time it will show some saving, if I can grow tomatoes and onions and some herbs every year then I can save nearly $50-100 per year, we have t...

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I ordered seeds and still ordering from eBay, I think they are the only place I can find many seeds and ship free, I live in UAE, cheap seeds and also free shipping, if that site you use can ship free to my country and cheap price then I will give it a try too, I have many seeds I want to order or w...

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I bought two containers or as you call it window boxes so I can plant parsley seeds in one and mint seeds in the other one. Also I am going to use a container I used before to grow onion from seeds but didn't work, I will try again from seeds, maybe because I planted the seeds slightly deeper than t...

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I like your approach -- yes, gardening is a continuing cycle of seasons and learning, and each plant has individual requirements that you will learn in time. It sounds like you are on the right track, and learnings which crop to plant when to their best advantage sounds like a priority. You may ver...

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Wow... I really don't know what of all that to try to respond to. You will get better with trial and error and learning what works for you. I can't tell you how to water, because your climate is so different from anything I have experienced. But to be successful, you will need to get over this: "bu...

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It is not a problem, I just stated last year late months, and all were as tests, happy to find that I can plant something, I thought [stupidity] that I can't grow anything in my country except those very hot resistance trees and most of them I don't like to eat fruits, didn't know there are plants I...

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Ok, about transplanting, all my plants in pots or containers are out facing all the weather conditions, sunlight, rain, wind, we got 2 rains within 2 months and before yesterday it was really raining medium, so my plants all of them except the one that is in shade apart from weather a bit are adjust...

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imafan26 wrote:Sunflowers are annuals. They only bloom once and the bloom lasts about 10 days from the first opening before the head starts to die.

Sunflowers will grow to face the morning sun (east).

I see, god to know, something to learn, I will put that in mind.

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Well, I was thinking to grow sunflowers outside my house also facing the main street there, because I am surrounded by houses from both directions left and right with the right house [when facing my house] having a small pathway in between with my house, and also a house behind mine, so only in the ...

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Were those pots watered by your helper? If so the seedlings might have died from being watered too hard. Your sunflower that died, was it one that you bought that was already blooming or a seedling you planted from seed? Plants with flowers are not seedlings, just plants or flowering plants. Sunflo...

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You can put those seeds in damp paper towels or toilet paper and see if they sprout. If they do sprout you can plant the sprouted seeds directly in the garden. The garden spot should be watered well before the sprouted seeds are planted and once you plant the seeds the garden area should be watered...

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Sunflowers are not good for small pots or cups because they grow so fast. The roots can grow 6 inches in just a few days. It would be much better to plant sprouted seeds directly in the garden. The 40 to 60 days is the time they take to develop flowers, not time to harvest mature seeds. Mature seed...

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You have someone else watering your seedlings and planted pots and you don't know how they are doing it? That may be the problem. Some seeds require light in order to sprout. If hard watering covers the seed with too much soil it won't sprout. Hard watering after the seeds germinate will kill the y...

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I feel like I already addressed growing corn from seeds, starting them in containers and then planting them in the garden or small numbers of plants if you want to try that, as well as in self watering containers/sub irrigated planters to address the watering issues, and hand pollination when numbe...

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Ok, I am sorry for putting too many questions, I should put one by one, but I didn't want to start to many threads for each plant, I know you want to help, and you are doing great, even if you didn't answer completely I appreciate it, also it doesn't need to be a page long answer for each question, ...

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Well, I planted RAW seeds directly from the package without soaking in water, I did a mistake to plant in 10 [5 small pots and 5 plastic or nylon drinking cup], I should just plant 3-5 raw seeds directly and try with soaked seeds for another 5 to check out which will work better, but now I made it a...

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Well, we have low temp and cloudy temp today, and little rains, very little, and a bit windy, I really don't know why but the sweet corn seedlings is growing fast, and the tomatoes seedlings at least in 2 pots WOW, I feel they grown about 2-3 inches in one day, yesterday I felt they were slightly up...

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Any temperature above freezing and they can sprout. I have a lot of birdseed sunflowers come up every spring. I never fertilize them, and they get only the water the rain provides (but remember I get a lot more rain than you do). Time from seed to flower will depend on the variety but I think it's ...

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For now, the weather is nice, and I think it will stay nice for another 4 months then slowly it will get warmer, and it will start hot maybe in late May, so there is almost nearly 5 months to worry about heat, so does that means most of my plants won't grow within those 5 months? I did read about so...

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I did look at your photos and garden plan. You need to add the size of your planting area. If you gave it and I didn't see it I apologize. I wouldn't plant the corn because it takes too much room for the little it produces. Corn is very easy to buy here. I would grow the tomatoes and peppers becaus...

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The seeds in your picture are most likely giant sunflower seeds. Usually you buy seeds for planting from the garden stores. Maybe the ones from your package will grow, maybe they won't. You never know until you try. And this is what I did, I planted some and I will see, hope it will work, I won't b...

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Sounds the soil is really good enough, the seeds I planted again as second test germinated and growing, and wow, it is really growing fast, so I can't wait to plant the seeds in the permanent beds then watch it grow day after day, I feel these days are the best time for planting because we have warm...

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Yes, I agree with these responses. Corn needs warmth and lots of sun. I always plant corn directly in the ground, not in pots. The organic farm where I did some volunteer work states that corn is easy to grow and will grow anywhere. I don't think that is necessarily true. One thing I know about cor...

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25 x 40 m doesn't make sense to me either . I have grown corn in a 4th block (1.2 m sq) and I have seen it grown in large containers. Ok, so one member suggesting to have a very large area and others just saying it doesn't make a sense, who I should believe? and what I should do here then?

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Butterfly Lady, did you mean to say 25 meters by 40 meters? I have been growing a small block of corn about 6 feet by 8 feet in recent years with good success. 25 meters by 40 is about 80 some feet by 130 feet. Exactly my point, honestly even my garden isn't that big if it is 25 meters by 40 meters...

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And about that seedling in the container, I am still not sure if I should keep there or transplant it to another pot as I did before, and this time if you suggest me to transplant it then I will make sure to fill the pot all way to the top.

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It is better to fill your containers all the way to the top . Fill them up, water it so the soil settles, then fill it again , Your little seedlings are in the shadow of the pot edges. If I fill it then it will bury the seedlings, that may kill it, so I was thinking to wait until it grow little bit...

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If you are going to plant your onion plant that come from the seed outside or in another spot then the seed can be planted 2.5 cm apart. If you are going to leave them in the container they should be about 12 cm apart. I never tried them on toilet paper, just in the soil. And they can be grown in y...

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Corn seed should be spaced about 1/2 meter apart. Most corn needs a lot of room to grow and you'll need at least 50 plants to get proper pollination. So a block of corn would be at least 25 meters long and 40 meters wide. You'll have to have the corn plants separated by rows so you have room to wal...

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Ok, I took the one from that package and planted in small pots and drinking cups, just as a test, I have too many seeds, so it is not a big lose if they germinated and died or never germinated, if it works and germinated then simply I will prepare the beds outside the house where I want to plant sun...

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Here is a package I bought yesterday and it says "RAW", now sure how true is that, but is this good for planted? Should I soak them in water first so to make sure they are washed and clean from anything before planting the seed?

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Hi again, I bought a seedling of a sunflower which has a flower already, it was in very very small pots and I really don't know why they do that when sell, so simply I transplanted it to a bigger pot, not so big but much bigger than that one they came with, and I will see how it will grow so far. No...

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Thanks for that table, I need time to convert them all or some to degree, I don't use F and I really don't like it in temp measuring, but I know it is your standard, but this table giving me the idea about the temp for different plant, hope this will help me later on.

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I planted new seeds nearly 1 week ago after the first time failure, and this time I planted only 1 seed in each hole instead of two, and wow, the germinated also and will grow, I am not sure how long those new seeds/plants will grow/live, but it is good to know that the seeds are in good condition a...

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Here is a container where I planted Campbell 33 seeds, I see this is the only seedling that keep growing, I am not sure if I should transplant this to another pot as I did before or keep it in this container, the container isn't that much deep but it is wide and there are another seeds planted but I...

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Here is a white pot that I mentioned before that it is not purchased by me, but it is mine now because the man left it for me. What making me to worry about it is that I just noticed there are very small seedlings started to grow near by the main one, I don't remember I planted more than one seed, a...

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And here is a pot where I transplanted one seedlings from a container of S.Marzano 2 type that I mentioned before, I wanted one seedlings to be individual so I transplanted this into this pot, not sure how it is grown so far, I will wait and see

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