Today’s installment of “You Can Grow That” is all about growing early sunflowers. What are early sunflowers? Just sunflowers you start indoors while it’s still cold so they can be ready to plant as soon as the soil warms up. Any extra advantage we can give to the pollinators to visit our gardens early is good.
To start our early sunflowers, we used some leftover coir pellets from last year’s seed starting efforts and put them in a spare snack bowl.
We poured hot water over the pellets to get them to expand. We tried cold water one year. That didn’t work. We also picked out some pretty sunflowers from our seed stash. We always have sunflowers since the Wonder Kids love planting them.
Due to their size, sunflower seeds are easy to insert into the pellets. We push them in pointy side down.
With the seeds in place, we wrote the seed type and date on a plastic zip bag. The snack cup was nestled into the bottom of the bag. Mommy did this. We closed up the bag and put it on top of the back of our stand-up freezer. (The back edge of a fridge top would work, as well).
Usually we wrap cling wrap around our various seed starting trays. But I keep forgetting to buy more cling wrap so we decided to try using a zip bag since it was handy. It gives the sunflowers a greenhouse-type micro-climate and the Wonder Kids can still see the seeds growing.
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