Hello, hello, today we are talking sunflowers here on the Epic Gardening podcast, Kevin

a spirit who here, hopefully, you're having an awesome garden, I mean it's almost

May, it's time to really get in there and start making these big plans.

And what bigger plan than growing a huge, huge sunflower or even a small one if you want

to.

I'm actually growing the full range at my homestead right now in the same raised bed.

Let's talk a little bit about the common sunflower, Helianthus, Anus.

It is the golden flower of Peru, St. Bartholomew star and the state flower of Kansas.

It is a genuine native of North America, which is really cool.

There's, I mean, we have a lot of natives in North America, but this is sort of a flagship

one.

It's a beautiful, beautiful plan and there's just so much that you can do with it highly

valued for culinary purposes.

I have a pack of sunflower seeds sitting on my desk right now.

Hopefully in the future it will be ones that I've grown, but you can extract, dies from

it.

That's crazy.

You can extract yellow purple and black dies from the sunflower.

You can actually feed livestock with it.

You can enjoy the flowers in a vase.

You get a ton of pollinator benefits.

So let's talk then about how to grow it.

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