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This video explains how to plant sunflower seeds outdoors and how to care for plants as they grow.
It covers sowing depth, spacing, soil preparation, watering and protecting seedlings from pests and wind. You’ll also learn how to support taller plants and keep them healthy through the growing season.
Following simple growing steps helps produce strong plants and reliable flowering.
These tips apply to garden beds, borders, raised beds and container growing.
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welcome back to Gardening with Ben In
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today's episode we're going to be
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planting our sunflowers out As they're
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getting too big for the pots it's still
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quite cool here in Sheffield but
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hopefully we can get them out We're
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going to have a little cold spell this
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week but then it's going to get
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warmer So hopefully they will not die on
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me Hopefully they'll survive the colder
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nights but we're going to get them out
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and get them planted and see if we can
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get the tallest sunflower this year in
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our little competition that we're doing
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in our gardening Discord See who can
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grow the biggest sunflower It's me
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against quite a few others and
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some novice gardeners as well So we need
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to try and win Really we can't let the
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noviceses win
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even though I still class myself as a
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novice So let's have a look at our
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sunflowers and see how big they are at
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the
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moment So as you can see they're quite
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tall So they need to get out in the soil
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to get them bigger and get them
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established and get them growing So we
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need to prepare a bed to plant these
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sunflowers in to get you nice huge ones
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We're going to win this competition
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Trust me I think we're going to use this
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bed to grow them in It's got some old
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beetroot in it So we're going to dig it
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all out get it all cleared get it dug
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over make sure it's weed free and get
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them planted This is a sunny bed this
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one It gets sun quite a lot So we need
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nice sunshine to get them nice and big
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to grow
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in So I got out most of the weeds And as
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you can see we've got some shellots
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growing as well That's
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shellot But yeah we're going to just um
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give it a good rotate over to get it dug
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over cuz it's a bit composty So we're
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going to dig it over and loosen the soil
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up So let's see our tool that we're
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going to be using We're going to be
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using this Wolf Garden tool which is
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absolutely fantastic It's got a hole on
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it and it's got blades on it as well to
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chop it all up So let's see in action
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As you can see it's chopping it up
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rather good Taking out some of the roots
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what are in
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there out
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Yeah there we
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go So we've got all the sunflowers
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outside what we're going to plant today
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We've got some fish blood and burn as
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well to give them an extra kick and to
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get them started So we're going to dig a
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hole put some of this in the bottom and
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then plant a sunflower on top Hopefully
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get some big sunflowers growing So it's
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a case of making a hole and then
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sprinkling some in to the
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bottom and then when it waters it'll
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feed the plant as
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well So there we go We have his first
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one in So we're just going to back fill
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it with the soil like so We'll get all
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them weeds out They'll die back anyway
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now that they've been all dug out So
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yeah let's get them all
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in So we've got them all planted out now
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We've got two rows there So what we're
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going to do is we're just going to give
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them that extra bit of food So we're
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going to spread some more fish and blood
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around the top so that it soaks into the
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soil as well and gives them that extra
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bit of food
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So there we have it all planted So last
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job is to give them a nice drink of
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water Remember sunflowers are heavy
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drinkers once they get established So
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yeah keep them well watered And
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obviously we need to get some big canes
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as well at some point to support them as
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they grow
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bigger So let's get them all watered So
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I hope you've enjoyed that video of us
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planting our sunflowers Make sure you
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stay up to date with how well they're
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getting on whether they get eaten or
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whether they survive And get growing and
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see if we can grow the tallest sunflower
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and beat everyone else So until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with bed
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everyone
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