Lou McLeod: How to Grow Sunflowers On Your Homestead

Thursday, 11 August 2016

How to Grow Sunflowers On Your Homestead

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Growing Sunflowers on your homestead is fun, easy and beneficial. Continue reading and learn how to grow sunflowers on your homestead and enjoy its amazing benefits!

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How to Grow Sunflowers On Your Homestead

Sunflowers is an annual plant native to America. While often adored as ornamentals, sunflowers also offer amazing health benefits and most parts of the plant are edible. Though finding fresh sunflower sprouts is hard to find, but it is easy to grow on your own. You can allow a few of the plants to grow in maturity and that will yield you thousands of new seeds for you to grow again. So, the entire process is totally sustainable.

To name a few of Sunflowers amazing health benefits, it is the following :

Promotes Cardiovascular Health
Phytosterols Promote Healthy Cholesterol Levels
Potent Source of Magnesium
Supports a Healthy Mood
Contains Selenium: A Powerful Antioxidant and Great for Thyroid Health

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How to Grow Sunflower Seeds Tutorial

Things you need!

sunflower seeds
pencil

Let’s start!

Sunflower season is mid-spring to late summer
Sunlight is absolutely vital to Sunflower growth, so before digging away, be sure that the location you choose for your sunflowers has plenty of sunlight.
Make sure your soil drains very well. Sunflowers are very resilient but the one thing that can cause them damage is flooded soil.
Sunflowers are heavy feeders, plant them in soil that is nutrient rich with organic matter or composted manure
Sunflowers do not require fertilizing but due to their fast growing nature, adding slow release fertilizer to particularly poor, thin soil is helpful.

Step 1 : Dig

Use a pencil to dig holes for each of your seeds. Try to make the holes around 1-inch deep and 6-inches apart.

Step 1 | How to Grow Sunflowers On Your Homestead

Step 2 : Plant

Plant one sunflower seed per hole. A light application of fertilizer mixed in at planting time will encourage stronger root growth.

Step 2 | How to Grow Sunflowers On Your Homestead

Step 3 : Grow

While the sunflower is still budding, concentrate on watering the root zone, about 3 to 4 in. from the plant. Water once a week with several gallons of water. Protect the plant with a bit of snail or slug bait at the stem.

That’s how quick and easy it is to plant sunflowers, even a child can do it! Feel free to get the rest of the family involved in the gardening. Keep sunflower sprouts in plenty of sunlight and watch your garden brighten up with these beautiful blooms in no time!

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