EVERY Garden and Homestead Should HAVE THIS Growing Soil Builder
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2023
- EVERY Garden and Homestead Should HAVE THIS Growing Soil Builder
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🌻🌻🌻🌻 The green leafes are edible, the flower petals can be dried to make tea, the inner pulb of the sunflowers stalks can be scooped out and dried, for a quality gluten-free gourmet pastry flour. The dry stalks can be used as kindling for fire. 🔥
Really!!! I never knew!!! Thanks!!!
Hi! I'm French I'm 50 old and I remember that when I was young every places people grew fruits and vegetables you would find a few sunflowers...now I understand why! Old and healthy way...
THANK YOU for sharing
Yes, CO2 is not a bad thing. It's just plant food! Your love and amazement at the wonder of the living soil is infectious! 😊
Absolutely!! not bad . Just to much is. Thanks
Nowhere near too much yet, but, really CARBON belongs in the soil! Nature told us that, but we didn't listen. Some of us, like yourself, are doing that. Cheers all!
My sunflower patch seeded itself from a bird feeder. I started spreading them around where I wanted them and pull up sprouts from pathways. The thinnings are feed to my chickens. Me green house now has a ring of sunflowers around it. The weather is hot by the time they get tall. This shades my green house. I’ve counted a dozen different pollinators and small birds utilizing their bounty.
Good point. Our pollinators need all the support we can help with. Especially bees and butterflies!
Amazing how it all works together.
I amended an 8x4 mostly empty bed with compost and raised bed soil for fall planting. Plants started coming up and my pant ID said they were sunflowers! They bloomed beautifully, about 2-3 feet high. I like to think they are a gift from my mother who passed in May. P.S. The bees love them!
Sending you a cyber-hug. Blessings to You and Yours! Thanks for sharing.
@@lilyrose4191 Thank you!
🙂@@nysigal
Totally agree. Sunflowers are our easiest plant to grow and the chickens absolutely love them. Awesome channel!
Thanks so much!
Did I miss how you planted these? Do you have a tractor with a plow? Brush hog them down at the end of the year.
Beautiful!!! Thank you, Mark! I grow sunflowers on new garden beds the first year. 1. They make us smile, and 2. They do a great job with the soil.
I fully agree with you, THANKS for sharing
Thank you both (video maker and video viewer) for sharing this very good gardening advice, I've learned something new and great today for building beautiful and healthy living soil!! So interesting.
As a reminder to everyone: during the growing season sunflowers are very heavy feeders so if you plant them along other plants make sure those other plants occupy a different root zone than the sunflowers.
Thank you, I didn't know that.
Here is a video showing that is not true but helps. Click on this link ruclips.net/video/X3P3uCOXhhY/видео.html
I was going to write the same. Sunflowers are probably the heaviest feeders of them all. I have some cabbages planted to a reasonable distance and the closest ones just won't grow, and the rest get larger as the distance increases. Same soil, same sun exposure.
@@mamarrachopunpun There is something else going on. Sunflowers use and grow Mycorrhizal fungi to bring in plant available nutrients and cabbage does not. Some Cabbages does not like high fungi soil
Thankyou for the info. Great video
Happy holiday America.
This city girl is jumping up and down with joy with what she just learned. thank you sharing, sharing and sharing some more.
My pleasure to share, THANK YOU.
Hallelujah, we have around 200 so glad to have a multi fold purpose🌻
GREAT to hear, Thanks
They are such HAPPY flowers! So they are not only good for the soil, they are also good for the soul!
Great way to look at this. THANK YOU.
I’m growing Russian mammoth sunflowers for the first time this year, they’re just now flowering from a late planting. The stalks are about 2 1/2 inches in diameter and twelve + feet tall with massive flowers. I typically grow a multi flower decorative type, and have black oilseed come up volunteer from using chicken run compost in my gardens, but the goldfinch typically pick out every single seed before they mature. I’ll probably have to bag the seed heads once the blooms fade to get seeds.
Fibonacci spirals as far as the eye can see
Yes, THANKS
How much water do they need. I'm in Portugal and so little water.
@@gerry3275honestly not that much, I have mine growing under a tree where they only get water from me and they grow. I would just choose a smaller variety.
@@gerry3275I'm also in Portugal, northwest (Minho) and I grow this variety. They grow very well even here where we have a lot of rain. I sell seeds if you are interested
@@DonnyBrisco why don't you keep your belief system for yourself and stop annoying everybody with it?
Great vid. I love growing sunflowers but never knew their power in breaking up hard clay soil (which is most of California). Shall absolutely plant a ton of them next season. Thank you!
Ty! We have alot of clay soil. We really needed help...sunflowers are beautiful!
Was just thinking about planting sunflowers as supplemental food for my chickens. It's great to know how much they'll help the soil too! I needed that extra information to help motivate me to go ahead and get them planted. Thank you for all of the information!!
Glad it was helpful. You can do it. Thanks
Sunflower is not one big flower with yellow petals. Every seed is produced from a separate floret. The yellow “petals” are a different kind of florets too.
This is very true, Thanks
I grew several varieties this year and had some around 9-10’ tall. I have clay soil and also don’t irritate or fertilize. Before I started my vegetable garden I grew sunflowers and for a couple years and chopped and dropped them to break up the soil and build it up. I also have honey bees but I find that the bumble bees are crazy for them. Often there will be 3-4 on one flower head! And my grandchildren love to pick them!🐝 ❤
Thanks to you I believed I can grow at least something . And now I got ton of tomatoes 🍅 peppers , herbs , flowers growing in my backyard. Used only dried leaves from last year and that’s it !!!!!!!!! Thank you so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Those sunflowers look absolutely stunning 🌻
Wonderful! You can do it. Thanks
This makes me really happy because I just planted some sunflowers a few days ago! Now I feel good about it!
I'm growing black oil sunflowers for the birds and squirrels to enjoy
Great to Hear, Thanks
Beautiful sunflowers!! I find Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) make amazing soil very quickly too!! 🌻
Yes they do, Thanks for sharing.
I absolutely love this video! I let my mammoth sunflowers grow wherever they want in my gardens and I'm always in amazement with them.
VERY NICE, Enjoy
Orioles love them. Blue and yellow. They bring in soo many more types of birds. Makeing your home a very diverse eco system.
I'm from Kansas so I'm a sunflower gal! I grow as plain as variety as I can, I think those are better for pollinators than the fancy hybrids. I'll chip those pithy stalks for mulch or often reuse the stalk that following year for a tomato or vegetable support. The only negative is they seed out so prolifically in my residential yard. I tried to clip them after they've bloomed and the pollinators have eat them but before they had gets anywhere near maturity.
I remember how on the widescreen TV a video popped up of a field of sunflowers. The hamster running on the wheel immediately stopped and went straight to the front of the cage where he could get the best view of it.
At frame 10:17, is that a giant bumblebee in the middle of that flower head? If it is, it's got to be one of the biggest ones I've ever seen! 😳😳😳
Cowpeas are a good companion plant for sunflowers. 🤗
sunflowers are impressive, Im in arizona and planted my seeds in august during the wild month long heat wave. Only 3 seedlings survived the heat out of 15, but that's genuinely impressive with 20 days of 110+ weather, mine are already about to bloom and so I've planted a second round. I can grow them year round here apparently so I'm never running out of flowers.
Last time we had 2 inches of rain was in May. One more storm in early July. None since. Been 105 degrees avg since middle of July. 1 sun flower left. The storm blew the others down.
Sorry to hear that....
I grew Skyscraper sunflowers this year. It was a cool wet summer in Fairbanks, Alaska, but my tallest is 12 feet with leaves 2 feet across.
I've been thinking about planting some sunflowers to feed to my chickens. You've convinced me. It's on the top of my to do list for next year.
Wonderful!. And your chickens will be happy.
Nice to know. My modest row of sunflowers (now 6'-10') along my front yard trellis also serve as a living trellis for my runner beans. #winwin :)
They, along with my plethora of native plants in my front yard, bring smiles to passersby.
This year, I have cucumbers trellising up my Mammoth sunflowers! I have a row of 22 sunflowers this year... my most ever!
Yay!👏🏻Happy to see you back Mark!
Yay, thank you!
Bonus points! The stem is extremely useful. It has two separate parts that have numerous uses, each.
First, there's this foam-like white inner pith that has uses including, but not limited to:
1. Putting in the sun/in a dehydrator/etc. until completely dried out, then grinding into a fine powder, which can then be used to replace flour in a number of cooking uses, or extend the flour you have.
2. Putting into a tin that can be sealed air tight (but with venting holes on the top) and putting it into low flames until it starts to smoke, then into higher flames until the smoking stops. This creates biochar that has all sorts of uses, not the least of which being, an extremely useful fire starting material.
3. Feeding to livestock.
Second, there's a very wood-like outer shell that has uses including, but not limited to:
1. Cutting into varying shapes for use in building trellises and other structures around your land. Use your imagination, the possibilities are limitless!
2. Burning as fuel for fire.
3. Chopping into chips to use as mulch.
Of course, both parts also always have the option of just composting them, but still. XD
THANK YOU for this helpful advice.
Rather than dispose of the long stems, split lengthways, scoop out the insides, dry, and crush between two flat stones and you have flour for cooking.
Or put in a blender.
A few years ago I left sun sunflower heads on the table outside for the birds. Of course the squirrels got to them. Soon one of the squirrels figured out that there are more sunflower heads growing in the yard and proceeded to devastate every single one of them. I had to stop growing for a few years til that squirrel was out of the picture. This year the sunflowers are doing just fine!
Wonderful. so great to hear. Thanks for sharing
Same with me. The squirrels ravaged the one sunflower plant I planted last year, so this year I planted 20.
Early last month, eight wild Parrots flew in and munched on the heads of several sunflower plants. However, they left more than enough heads for the squirrels. 🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜🐿️🐿️🐿️
Beautiful! I have dozens of sunflowers in my yard that I didn't even plant this year. I love the variety of red, orange, yellow and black. I just keep the heads for the birds in the winter. Plus the cats get some entertainment on the cold days
Thanks for the fresh ideas. And, thanks for helping spread the message on how awesome it is to cooperate instead of trying to push nature around. The field is beautiful.
Mark, I feel like you didn't finish the story. So the sunflowers are up and look beautiful. You pulled up one stalk to reveal the root system. But, at the end of
the season should I cut them down to ground level and let them rot, or let them stand and die naturally? My purpose is soil building, not selling the heads.
Sorry about that. Yes, cut them to ground level. Do not remove roots . They will let air and water into your soil and are also food for the living microbes also. Thanks.
@@iamorganicgardeningWhat do you do with the stalks?
@@KayAteChefcan compost, or use to make a "bee hotel", or break up and use as mulch. All roads lead to Rome, so to speak.
I use the stalks to wind up the spider webs that grace the house exterior.
Okay.. You cut them to the ground..
Do you add the plants to compost or back to the soil??
Please pin the original comment and your replies..
I watched this to see what you did Afterwards, as well.
Thx for the video! 😊🌻
I've been using sunflowers for years. Planted 4-5 years ago and they come back every year.
I really like them in my Strawberry patch, they provide shade, and the birds poop meets the nutrient demand of the patch, with the added benefit of the birds keep the slugs away from the berries.
Another place I like to use them is for ground cover on my park strip. Sure I have to go trim them back so the sidewalk is passable, but they are fairly drought tolerant, and despite being allergic to the plants and most the bees that feed on them, it does a world of good for the pollinators, and doesn't look half bad in the park strip.
At the end of the season what do you do with the plants? Do you have to knock them down to prepare the ground for the next year?
Thank you for pointing out that 98% of bacteria & fungi are beneficial!
I've always planted a few sunflowers so that the birds have a place to land while they scope out bugs in my garden.
Next year, I will be sure to plant a larger number of them!
Some of your people have mentioned using the inside of the stems for flour. That's a cool idea. I will have to try that too!
Thank you, I will definitely be planting sunflowers next year to brighten my garden.
Wonderful! Enjoy
Guy talks all about sunflowers! I love it. I appreciate your voice & enthusiasm. Thank you~😄💕
Well done Mark. You are always great in whatever you are doing and the results speak for themselves. You are easy and very clear to understand. Just a great teacher. Extremely authentic and genuine person. God Bless
Many THANKS . Glad to share with you all.
They are magnificent. Grew the mammoth sunflowers last year. They are everything as you said except mine couldn’t support themselves well. I had to popped them up with strong support. There’s a bit of work to process the sunflower seeds which I happily donated to the local food bank.
Great to her about your sunflowers an the seeds you Donate. FANTASTIC. Thanks
I actually got excited when I realized you were showing us the roots of the sunflower! I’m growing some multi-stem ones in my small backyard garden for the first time and wondered what the root system looked like.
When the sunflower is done, just cut the stem of at ground level and leave the roots in the ground to die off.
So glad to see another video, I sit on the edge of my chair phone in hand waiting for your wisdom haha nah not that bad but true so happy to see another video on soil building building. I put my life savings into buying a 12 acre property Australia, we love it but the soil has no life and is pretty sandy so I hang off your words of wisdom. Sorry to make this long. I'm a little confused on no dig method and planting cover crops. How do I plant a field of cover crops on no dig? So I've decided to dig then plant cover crops chop it down then play no dig on what I have built. Does this sound like a plan? Thank you in advance Mark from I am organic
Tony from Australia G'day mate.
What State ,NSW? Aussies should have a no dig garden forum.
@@margaretraumer9068 yes near picton nsw
You can always till or loosen the soil to 1 inch deep so you seeds have contact with the soil . This way the birds do not eat them all. No till means to me not deeper then 1 inch..
@@iamorganicgardening thank you Mark I have sandy soil here and I dug in chickens bedding and goats bedding and rabbits bedding which had a lot of grey stripped sunflower seeds in it wich they didn't eat dug them in about 4 inches on 100 square metre garden bed and seen 2 worms only so not much happening in my soil. Did the same thing to another garden bed around 8 months ago now when I dig I find a few worms so maybe working, now trying cover crops thanks to your advice so a bit of what I've done and cover cropping sooner or later I should be doing OK well my soil will be. Thanks Mark
I bet the deer love them too! Never knew that about sunflowers ! Planting them next year for sure!
They do. That is why I spent 15 thousand $ for a 8 foot deer fence around my farm. Thanks
i grow extra stuff for the animals the eat them, make it easy access to those specific plants the rest i make it take just SOME effort an it works out cus i guess they think "why would i go for that behine the fence and wire or trellis when this is right here already for me"
fruit trees are a bit harder cus it takes a couple years so you cant just plant extra plants like that. but for peppers and tomatos it works
I was wondering where you went but just realized that I didn't click on the bell icon to notify me of new videos. Now I can binge on all of the recent episodes I missed. Almost spring here in NSW Australia, but nice, sunny days here already. running late, as usual but plenty of time. I have stockpiled compost, ready to go. Been collecting things to grow for free & cheap. Community food bank is a great source of vegetables & fruit seeds!
We are from NSW too Austral, are you close ?
Wow.......I had no idea that this flower was such a powerhouse......we need good soil.
You are so correct, Enjoy.
Thank you for this!!!! Beautiful sun flowers!!!! Reminded me of my childhood at my grandmother's homestead where we also grew sun flowers in fields. At that time I didn't know it was to regenerate the soil but my grandparents knew. It was the most fun to walk through those fields. happy happy times!!!! I hope to tried them too, at my own homestead one day soon!!! God bless you for the lesson!!❤💚💛💜
Do you direct sow the seeds for a sunflower field of this size? If so, how many seeds would one need to sow for a patch this size?
I lightly rototill the soil 1 inch deep. Then walk the field with a large chest worn seed hand spinner broadcaster. Then rototill again to cover them and mix in, Aways do this before a heavy rain storm. Reason to keep birds from eating them
Hi Mark, after cutting the stalks I assume I would leave the roots for a while, but how would you suggest I deal with planting the cash crop with all the huge roots and partial stems left there. Can you till them in? Other ideas?
It also attract leaf footed stink bugs which if planted strategically can keep the leaf footed stink bugs off of your other crops.
GREAT to Know. Thanks
@@iamorganicgardening your welcome thanks for your video, very informative.
The tomatoes I replanted for the second season after following my sunflowers as you suggested several years ago and last season I believe they were less than 1/3 the work efforts and barely lost to my hardest method to raise tomatoes of the 6 method I tested in my garden mid Ohio clay base soil and 6a.
Thanks Mark I'm with you Buddy
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing
Awesome video, thanks for all the info, definitely planting sunflowers next year.
Thank you Mark! I've enjoyed and learned so much over the years.
It was your video of sunflowers and strawberries in the round, raised bed that inspired Me to subscribe.
😃👍🖖-KJ
So nice of you, That was 6 years ago, THANK YOU for watching for all that time. I found what might be the answer to electric Culture under my microscope. In the next video.
Excellent Content
Genesis Biochar is a stable carbon soil conditioner that gives the life in your soil a permanent home.
Wow!! They are SO beautiful!!! I can't wait to plant these!!! I didn't know they were so useful!!! My friend's father grew them and people thought he was eccentric!!
Enjoy the beauty and results of them. Happy Gardening
It's mid summer here and I just filled a new raised garden bed with leaf mould, coffee grounds, seaweed and a few layers of soil. I'll plant some sunflowers in it for now and some peas in early autumn 👍
That is so great. Enjoy
So beautiful, thank you.
Stunning 🌻🤩 I’m in nw Nevada desert… hot, dry with little rain. My garden area is well amended but out side of it .. sand. However I have random sunflowers that come up in just sand. I don’t water them & they do OK .. nothing to brag about like my garden 😊 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
GREAT, they are such great plants to grow in all types of soil and weather. THANK YOU for sharing
Great video!
THANK YOU so very much. Have a great week ahead
Oh, also, that stuff you brushed off of the seed heads? All those tiny little yellow petals? Brush them off in a way that lets you save them, and those-together with the larger petals all around the outside-can either be dried, then steeped in boiling water to make a kind of tea; or used to make an inexpensive yellow dye.
Thank You for this Helpful advice and sharing.
Gorgeous!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Absolutely loved your very interesting video from rainy England.
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Awesome info! Thank you so much for sharing.
You bet! THANK YOU.
New subscriber here Sir! Beautiful flowers doing beautiful work. I seem to remember reading somewhere that nibbling on sunflowers is really helpful if someone is stopping smoking. xx
Very Interesting. Thanks
Thanks!
You bet!
That is so beautiful. Glorious.
Thank you kindly!
Excellent video
THANK YOU so very much.
Smart 👍👏 thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
What a wonderful sharing ✌🏼💗
Thank you! Cheers!
New to gardening so great to have found you
THANK YOU. Here to Help You.
I learn so much when I watch your videos. Thank you!
I'm so glad! THANK YOU.
Wow! Beautiful sunflowers grown by the wonderful grower. Thank you for sharing knowledge!
So nice of you for say. THANK YOU.
THANKS FOR INFO--BUILDING SOILS
My pleasure to share and help. THANK YOU.
Thanks for the video, bro. Much love from the UK.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful abundance of Nature 👍
It really is! THANK YOU.
They follow the sun ❤ love them I grow them too
I always have at least 6 huge ones in my small garden. Birds and bees love it and my hard clay soil is wet and nutrious i dont even have to feed them. I do have a couple differnt types, the rd brown ones and the bright yellows
Beautiful Sunflowers!
Thank you! Cheers!
Love the detailed video and beautiful garden thank you for sharing!
So nice of you, THANK U.
Excellent content! Thank you for creating and sharing this video! I sure learned a lot!
Great to hear! THANK YOU for watching
It's All About the Biology! Beautiful sunflowers, thank you for sharing.
Yes , You are 100% Correct. Thanks
Excellent video! 😀 Thank you! Liked! Shared! Subscribed ! 🙂
Thank you very much! Happy gardening.
You're welcome! 🙂@@iamorganicgardening
Awesome!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful sun flowers
So nice of you to say. THANKS
Any other tips regarding growing sunflowers is greatly apprectiated.
Thx
Bravo........I use sea weed from ocean.......stinging nettle .........sun flowers grow 10 feet tap root......bee love ya..........sunflower honney.......cheers
That is so GREAT to hear. THANK YOU.
Nice sunflowers
THANK YOU , Kindly
Love your presentation! I started my small homestead last year, a couple of hundred sunflowers spread out in patches across around 3‘500 m2.
I’m curious how you sow the seeds. I did it manually one by one. I want to plant way more next year. How would you suggest to do that?
Very informative,i loved this video,please guide how far each sunflower seed should be planted
8 inch to 1 foot apart
Thanks for sharing
Greetings (thanks) from Pakistan
Thanks for saying Hello. Enjoy.
Sunflowers are my favorite flower! Just BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY!
I fully agree with you, Thanks
Wonderful video. We have an acre that is under lived and I sure would like to purpose driven revive it. We have pasture grass now. Could you touch on your process. Did you do any ground prep prior to sowing seed? How did you set or sow your seed? Do you have special equipment like a seed drill? If you broadcast seeded, did you set your seed with a drag harrow or drag chain?
Gorgeous plants! Very informative video ~ well done; lots of useful information, especially for newbies or weekend gardeners like myself.
Many thanks. Enjoy.
I planted Mamouth Sunflowers along the backyard fence this past spring before the chicks were hatched. They grew taller than my 12 foot quilt frame pole but most of the heads did not set seeds. I will try planting them a month earlier next year so be bees will have earlier food. I also grow broccoli and let it go to seed so the bees have a reason to visit. Thank you for the Sunflower info and Greeting from two planting seasons in South Louisiana.