Starting Sunflowers

Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:39 am

So i am starting 5 Sunflower plants just to see what its like, any helping expereance is nice, would it be ok to transplant them into a hourse manuer sawdust dirt mix? Also, i mix hourse manuer, sawdust, and water, and i let it sit in the sun, after that i strain the water out and keep it in a tub, i water all my plants with it, would it be a helpful hand with my sunflower? I heard its best to plant sunflowers in a very organic bed.

Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:42 pm

From my understanding that is the recommended treatment for growing giant sunflowers. I just throw mine into the regular flower beds around my house (no special treatment) and still get big beautiful sunflowers

GL.

Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:26 pm

I plantes a row a sunflowers, I planted about 36 seeds, and around 18 came up. Didn't spread them out or anything and they grew real well. My tallest hit 9ft. It was a mix of Skyscrapers and Autumn sunflowers so I got yellow and orange sunflowers. The Skyscrapers only had one big yellow bloom and the autumn ones had a bunch of blooms each.