Sunflower seeds can be bought, and it is possible to grow up sunflowers on the personal plot. Especially as culture this unpretentious and beautiful huge flowers will decorate garden beds.
It is required to you
- - seeds;
- - acrylic;
- - scarecrow or another, the device which is frightening off birds;
- - gauze.
Instruction
1. Allocate well lit place for landings, dig over the earth since fall and introduce fertilizers. It is possible the rerotting manure (4-6 kg on 1 sq.m) or mineral fertilizers to the number of 300-400 g on hundred part.
2. Sunflowers are not afraid of frosts to-5 degrees, but all the same try to choose such time for landing when the soil gets warm at depth of 6-10 cm up to 8 degrees of Page. At first couch seeds. For this purpose wet them, having enveloped in gauze or some soft natural fabric. Place in the place with temperature not lower than 20 degrees of Page. When there are sprouts, seeds can be planted in soil.
3. Make small deepening in the soil, no more than 10 cm, water and accurately put sprouted to sunflower seed back down. Powder with the earth. It is possible to make furrows and to place in them sunflower seeds at distance of 30-40 cm one from another. Between furrows observe width in half-meter. Remember, the plants will be more rare, the more largely at them sunflower seeds ripen. Therefore very good harvest is received if to plant sunflowers in row-spacings of beet, potatoes and other cultures.
4. Sunflowers do not demand special care. It is enough to delete weeds in time and to water in process of drying of the soil. The main thing, it to save young plants from birds who like to regale on gentle sprouts. For this purpose it is possible to cover the site with shoots thin acrylic. If you have big plantation, then just put scarecrow.
5. And here after the beginning of maturing of sunflower seeds it is necessary to take measures for rescue of harvest already. For this purpose separate baskets tie with gauze. On the big site put the frightening-off designs, for example, noisy wind revolving objects, brilliant tapes from foil on poles and another.
6. Harvest when sunflower seeds become dense. Cut off each head sharp knife, place harvest on drying. Do not forget to leave the largest seeds for landing for the next year.