ALL ABOUT SUNFLOWERS

Here you’ll find information about how to pick, grow, and care for your sunflowers at home!

 
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Caring For Your Cut Sunflowers

  • Four parts water

  • One part citrus soda (7up or Sprite)

  • About a thimble of bleach (this kills the bacteria)

  • Change the solution and recut the stems every 2-3 days.

Recutting your flowers is probably the most important part. Like us, flowers naturally try to heal a wound by closing it off. If they close the cut, they prohibit themselves from taking in water. If they can’t take up water, they wilt and die.

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Grow Your Own Sunflowers

We have sunflower seeds available for purchase ($3.50) at the farm, so you can have your very own happy flowers right at your window! Follow these steps to give them their best life.

  • Plant in 1/2 inch of sandy, moist soil

  • Keep soil moist

  • Keep in full sunlight

  • May use Miracle Grow

  • Should bloom in 55-60 days

  • Sunflowers will face east when they bloom, so keep this in mind when choosing a spot to plant.

  • SEEDS PURCHASED AT THE FARM ARE COATED WITH CHEMICALS AND NOT EDIBLE

Life Span of A Sunflower

 
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  1. The flower has just opened.

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2. The ring begins to form as the bees pollinate the flower. They start at the outside of the face and work towards the middle.

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3. The bees continue to pollinate the flower, nearly to the center of the flower.

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4. The flower has been pollinated and is drying up in order for its seeds to fall and begin the next generation.

Sunflower Fun Facts

  1. Sunflowers are grown and harvested to use in a variety ways - cooking oil, bird seed, or even as feed for dairy cows.

  2. Sunflowers are 100% edible from top to bottom - the stem, leaves, petals, and the head.

  3. They are phototropic, meaning that the flower faces and follows the sun as it moves from east to west. After it blooms, it remains facing east.

  4. There are thousands of varieties of sunflowers. They are grown for many different reasons and come in all different sizes, colors, and oil content.

  5. Sunflowers are native to North America.