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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How to Grow Sunflowers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:17.7

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

0:22.4

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

0:26.8

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

0:31.4

to.

0:32.4

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

0:36.4

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

0:41.5

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

0:47.6

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

0:51.2

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

0:54.8

one.

0:55.8

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

1:00.2

valued for culinary purposes.

1:01.6

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

1:05.0

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

1:09.9

it.

1:10.9

That's crazy.

1:11.9

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

1:15.2

You can actually feed livestock with it.

1:16.8

You can enjoy the flowers in a vase.

1:18.4

You get a ton of pollinator benefits.

1:20.4

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

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