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How to grow massive sunflowers in the garden allotment | Gardening Tips & Allotment Advice Podcast
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Nov 15, 2024
🌞 How to Grow Massive Sunflowers in the Garden Allotment! Want to turn heads with towering, golden blooms? 🌻💪 In this episode, I’m sharing everything you need to know to grow giant sunflowers — from seed selection and soil prep to feeding, staking, and sunlight tips. What’s the tallest sunflower you’ve ever grown? #GiantSunflowers #GrowYourOwn #SunflowerTips #AllotmentLife #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #SummerBlooms
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ready what's growing in the greenhouse
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ready to be planted out as I've got
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there what I'm sharing with you all from
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the allotment and today's topic what
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we're going to talk about is about grow
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gr sunflowers growing large sunflowers
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now sunflowers are a phenomenal flower
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and if you've never tried growing a
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sunflower before you should really give
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it a chance now you've still got time to
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plant some sunflower seeds if you want
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to give it a try
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so go out get some seeds and give them a
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try you can get them from Amazon you can
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get them from the range where I get mine
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from and yeah plenty of places sell
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sunflower seeds and and they're so easy
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to grow well you just have to be careful
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at the beginning because slugs can come
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along and nibble them up and you'll end
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up losing them but if you plant them out
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once they're big enough and tall enough
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then you've got more chance of
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protecting them from the slugs from
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eating
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them so how do we grow nice tall
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sunflowers now one variety which does
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grow absolutely massive is a Russian
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sunflower these grow absolutely huge you
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can get get a sunflower up to 30 foot if
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you're lucky and the best thing about
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sunflowers is that if you grow plenty of
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them you can use the stock as canes the
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next year because they dry out rock hard
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and they're perfect for canes and
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supports and stuff like that so it saves
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money on buying canes so just grow lots
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of sunflowers this year and you'll have
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loads of canes for your running beans
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and supports next year it's one thing
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that I use I use all the canes to
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absolutely Rock Solid
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cannot break them most of the time
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they're that hard um but yeah they make
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great supports and great canes for the
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allotment so how do you grow big tall
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sunflowers or and what are the tips for
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growing decent sunflowers well I've grew
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mine in my greenhouse and then I potted
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them on grew them to a decent size and
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then I planted them out yes I did use a
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few slug pallets around them because I
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wanted to protect them I wanted them to
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be safe and get growing but I don't need
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the slug pallets now they're at a decent
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size and they should survive well but
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once they start getting quite tall you
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need to start supporting them by putting
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the cane in there as that will get it
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growing straight and it will support it
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from snapping which you do not want once
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You' start it but obviously when you
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fastening it up to a cane what you need
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to make sure is that you don't tie it
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too tight you need to leave
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a bit of movement in it because the
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thickness of the stock on the sunflower
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will get really thick as it gets bigger
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and obviously you don't want the wire
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what you're uh tiing it to the came with
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to cut through the stem and damage it so
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you need to make sure that you do leave
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some movement in it and if you're
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watering them on a regular basis like on
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a daily basis you could
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be fening it up every few days because
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once sunflowers start growing they start
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growing fast and are mean really fast
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and every time I go to the alotment I
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will give them some water because they
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are thirsty drinkers they are really
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thirsty drinkers so yeah make sure you
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give them plenty of water when it comes
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to feeding the
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sunflowers I tend to put some chicken
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pellets around the bottom which will
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feed the sunflowers for two to 3 months
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so I'll go around again in a couple of
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months time and sprinkle some more
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chicken pellets around it and they will
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break down over the few months and feed
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the plant and obviously they're good for
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when you watering them for when it rains
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it will keep feeding the plant which is
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something that you want to
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do I also use Liquid feed as well once a
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week I'll just give some food to them
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and hope that they'll drink it and it
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will help them boost them and grow them
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and I've done a YouTube video on this it
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should be appearing in the next couple
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of days if it's not already up there
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already uh on what feed I use for my
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sunflowers so make sure you do check
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that out but obviously once you get to a
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decent size you can have little
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competitions with the family and friends
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to see who can grow the toly sunflower
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on the allotment or in the garden and
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have a little competition between one
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another like I've won 's grown one
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really tall and I mean so tall it will
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like at home it will fasten up to the
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drain pipe it will that tall and I want
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a sunflower competition for growing the
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tallest one so it is pretty good fun and
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then obviously once it's come to the end
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of the year when the head's dying off
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you can either save the seeds to grow
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again next year you can leave hang the
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seed heads up for the birds to eat
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because the birds will love to eat the
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sunflower seeds or you can actually
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roast them I've never tried roasted
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sunflower seeds so if you have tried
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roasting sunflower seeds please do let
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me know and share with me if you
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actually like them or not because I do
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like to find out these things so yeah
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that is how you grow massive sunflowers
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and regular water like once every day or
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once every two days give it some water
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to drink and it will grow massive
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especially when it's flouring make sure
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you keep water in it and give it some
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liquid feed once a week to two times a
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week and put some chicken pellets down
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around it as well to give it that extra
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kick and keep feeding it so I hope
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