Why You Should Cover Your Garden in Sunflowers This Summer!
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2020
- Our vegetable season is winding down for a few months, but that doesn't mean the garden isn't full. Join us as well plant a cover crop of sunflowers to feed our bees through the summer.
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Never thought of sunflowers as a cover crop. Always learning something new. Thank you
Thanks for watching, Barbara!
When I grew them down in Roseville one year, it was really cute, they got to about nine feet tall, squirrels climbed up them bent them over so they could harvest the heads :-)
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That’ll be fun to see come up!
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I just ordered all three varieties. I haven’t planted many flowers in the past, mainly vegetables. This year we planted a mix for cut flowers and to attract pollinators. That area is now my family’s favorite area in the garden. It’s even more popular than the strawberries and blackberries. We’re drawn to that one row. So it seems, they attract gardeners, not just pollinators. And as we all know: the best tool for the garden is the gardener. To that end, I’m going to plant a whole row of your sunflowers and build on that experience.
Sounds like a plan, Adam!
I'm in South Texas and today I planted a row of sunflowers in my garden. I was wondering how late I can plant these glad to see someone else planting them now! Thank you!
If you're in south Texas, you can plant them now through October and you'll be fine.
@@gardeningwithhoss thank you so much, that is very helpful!
I just found your channel recently, and subscribed! I’m from S.D. Zone 5, and we have many gorgeous sunflower🌻fields across our state.If you ever travel I-90 in late Summer, it’s a beautiful site!! I don’t personally have fields, but I do have a fruit and veggie garden. I scatter some wild flower seeds for pollinators, and I’m doing 3 kinds of sunflowers around my yard and garden this year. I wish I’d of known you sold seeds, before I ordered mine! I’ll have to check and see if you have a catalog, but either way, I’m definitely ordering seed and etc from you soon, for next year. Great video!! 👍🌻🐝
Welcome to the channel! Glad you found us!
That's gonna be nice.
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Chia is roughly the same height and grows well with sunflowers to wind block and have nice blue flowers.
We've grown Chia in the past. It does well and likes the heat.
What’s the advantage to the soil. How does it feed the soil. I figured it would be pulling nutrients out. Granted you get a nice biomass of flowers and seeds. Or is it leaving the roots in the ground at the end whats improving the soil.
It doesn't necessarily "feed the soil" like other cover crops. But anytime you grow something, the roots help to break down the soil and make it more workable in the future. It does provide a nice placeholder until fall though.
I have grown carrot in the same place spring and fall going in year 3 what can I put on the soil to rejuvenate my square foot garden? Also can I companion plant anything with it besides radish.
Don't grow anything in the same family in the same spot in consecutive years. That's a recipe for disease issues. Rotate, rotate, rotate.
Travis I am just above yall in ga, I have rock hard ga red clay. I have amended it with lime, sand and two different cover crops (buckwheat & clover). My clay has not loosened yet. Any recommendations for loosening up the clay? I have been told to use wood chips.
Gypsum helps. Also grow a cover crop of tillage/daikon radish in the fall.
Travis. How do you think it would do, if I broadcast sorghum sudangrass and then planted sunflowers in rows in the same plot. For a covercrop cocktail.
I would plant the sunflowers first, wait a few weeks til they got up and going, then plant the sorghum sudangrass. Sorghum Sudangrass grows very fast and would likely outcompete the sunflowers initially.
Can I plant sunflowers in with other cover crops such as rye and peas? We have some growing after we bushhogged the acres. I would like to do some sunflowers and possibly corn and squash. In a no till method.
yes you can
Are you able to grow something in the garden all year round?
Pretty much. We can't grow much (except okra, peppers and sweet potatoes) in August or September because it's so hot, but the rest of the year is fair game.
do you have to fertilize them any
We don't.
How do you keep critters out of your garden?
Two cats, a dog and a shotgun.
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Will those produce edible sunflower seeds?
Not sure. We've never grown them for the seeds. I assume so.
At the end to you harvest the seeds , and then just pull the plants out...
We don't harvest the seeds. We'll just mow them when we're ready to plant something else in that plot.
What the heck happened to the sunflowers challenge?