Planting sunflowers

Anyone have any experience with this?
I would like to use my Allis drill planter if possible.

Thanks & God Bless

Dennis

Deere finger pickups works good for flowers

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ibleedorange wrote:

How many acres you planting?

Only about 1/2 acre for now.

Thanks & God Bless

Dennis

I’m planning them for my wife to enjoy.

Edited by DennisA (IL) - 12 Aug 2019 at 2:25pm

Thanks & God Bless

Dennis

I hope you like birds, when they get ripe you will have birds, we had to quit raising them because the blackbirds would get half before we could harvest.

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victoryallis wrote:

If you grow soys and don’t have a white mold problem you will.

Explain what you mean by soys and sunflowers and white mold. You talking same ground or "in the neighborhood" . Have been planting a few little patches last two yrs for family dove hunting near the pond but not in my actual farm fields. Am I asking for trouble?

Thanks for the info guys!

Thanks & God Bless

Dennis

We plant them just for the joy of it too......It was a damp fall in our parts last year, so I had trouble drying the heads and dealt with the mold issues too, so we had little to none for food consumption.....

I saved the best seeds, that we did not trust to eat, in what amounted to a medium paper bag full; and this Spring after working the garden ground real good, the wife and I scattered/sown them by hand on top the ground and what amounted to maybe 1/8th of an acre worth.

I worked them into the ground by gently scratching the surface with the rear mount cultivator on my WD.

By the looks off it, every darn seed came up......So, my experience has been that it doesn't take to much for them to grow, but they can be a real pain to harvest and process, even in the smallest amounts.

And yeah, the birds will get half of them. But if you're a nature lover, the sunflowers can attract birds you may not usually otherwise see.....honey bees love them to death too.....

So, if you are just growing them for the fun of it, you really don't have to over think it too much.

Edited by JayD-17(NY) - 13 Aug 2019 at 3:03pm

SteveM C/IL wrote:

victoryallis wrote:

If you grow soys and don’t have a white mold problem you will.

Explain what you mean by soys and sunflowers and white mold. You talking same ground or "in the neighborhood" . Have been planting a few little patches last two yrs for family dove hunting near the pond but not in my actual farm fields. Am I asking for trouble?

The fungus that causes white mold can stay in the soil 7 years and It’s hard/expensive to treat. It has certainly caused grief in two fields for me.

Edited by victoryallis - 13 Aug 2019 at 9:55pm

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