Sunflower: growing in a container. Types of sunflower

Sunflower is an ornamental and beautiful plant that can be easily grown both on the windowsill at home and in the garden.

Sunflower can be a great decorative decoration at home if planted in a container. It grows quite quickly. When growing sunflowers in a container or flower garden , choose low-growing or dwarf varieties of sunflower.

Where to start growing sunflowers in a container. Of course, with the choice of seeds.

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Types of sunflower

Through the efforts of breeders, a wide variety of sunflower varieties were obtained. Many of them are so different from the usual appearance that they can mislead even the most experienced gardeners.

• Lovers of the classics, or rather, the good old village sunflower, are recommended the unpretentious and charming domestic variety “Dachnik”. Its yellow juicy inflorescences decorate the garden from July to October, invariably delighting with their bright and cheerful appearance.



• For fans of large format, giant varieties are great, indispensable when creating country-style hedges:

  yellow – “Russian Mammoth”, “Titan”, “Bismarckianus”, “Giant Single”, “Ginger Nat”;

  burgundy – “Red Sun” (domestic variety), “Moulin Rouge” (Moulin rouge);

  variegated – “Autumn Beauty”, “Music Box”, “Fun’n ‘Sun mix”, “Parasol mix”, “Monet mix”.

  

• Recently, red, pink and lemon colors of sunflower have become more and more common in gardening. For example, variegated flower bed varieties:

  Velvet Queen, Prado Red – red;

  “Carmen” (domestic variety), “Chianti” (Chianti) – burgundy;

  “Juliana” (domestic variety), “Lunar” (domestic variety), “Moonlight” (domestic variety), “Lemon Aura”, “Valentin”, “Floristan” (Floristan) – lemon ;

  “Sun King” (Sun King) – pink with a lemon edge;

  “Nadezhda” (domestic variety) – pink-burgundy with a lemon edge;

  “Florence” (Florenza) – burgundy-lemon;

  “Summer” (domestic variety) – with two- and three-color inflorescences from yellow to light brown and red.

  
• Container varieties will help to prolong the charm of summer even in home gardening conditions: “Teddy Bear” (Teddy Bear), “Pacino” (Pacino), “Zebulon” (Zebulon), “Big Smile” (Big Smile).

Choosing a container for sunflower

You need to start growing sunflowers by choosing a container.

Sunflower does not really like transplanting, so for dwarf varieties it is better to immediately pick up a pot with a diameter of at least forty centimeters. If you decide to grow a giant variety of sunflower, then it is better to choose a container with a volume of at least 18 liters. The next step is to fill the sunflower growing container with drainage and soil. Expanded clay, gravel or pebbles are perfect as drainage. Then soil is poured into the growing container. You can use, for example, compost and ready-made soil mixture. Pour the soil into the pot, so that about two and a half centimeters remain to the edge.

How to sow sunflower seeds in a container

It is necessary to plant ornamental sunflower seeds to a depth of no more than two centimeters. A box ninety centimeters long can fit no more than eight plants planted at a distance of ten centimeters from each other. Seeds are placed in pairs. In this case, you need to be prepared for the fact that in the future less viable sprouts will have to be removed.

After the sowing of seeds is completed, the land must be watered abundantly. The further watering regime is quite stable: once every two days. In no case should the soil be allowed to dry out.

Sunflower seeds can germinate in three, eight, and fourteen days. If this does not happen after two weeks, then the chance of further emergence of seedlings is reduced to almost zero. After the appearance of the first shoots, it is necessary to remove (you cannot pull out, only cut) less developed sprouts , and leave only one of the holes. As soon as the height of the plant reaches thirty centimeters, watering should be increased .

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Where to put a container with sunflower

It is important to find the right place for sunflowers. Sunflowers do not tolerate shade well, so it is better to put them in a well-lit room, on a loggia or balcony.

Fertilizer for sunflower

After the first buds begin to form on the plant, it is necessary to increase watering and feed with complex mineral fertilizer 1 time in 7 days.

Sunflower support

As the sunflower grows, you may encounter such a problem that the flowers will become very heavy and need to be tied to a support.

Collection of sunflower seeds

To collect sunflower seeds, you need to wait until the flower is completely dry. A huge advantage of growing sunflowers at home is its complete protection from birds, which often attack the plant in open areas long before harvest.