Specialty Gardening: Planting sunflowers in containers, 1 by gabagoo

gabagoo wrote:
I ALWAYS grow sunflowers - in containers (I don't have any in-ground plants)
I've had 5ft plants in 12" pots - 1 per pot.
If it's a shorter variety, I can put 2 or 3 (depending on the size) in a 16" pot.
The ones that pop up from the bird seed are usually tall ones.
I'll stick them in a 16" pot by itself.

Winter-sowing isn't necessary in my opinion.
They germinate & pop up so fast, they don't need a head start.
There are some varieties don't like to be transplanted, so I just pop the seeds into the pot I want the plants in.

Nancy

This message was edited Jan 26, 2007 9:15 AM