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Beginner Gardening: Help with Sunflower seedlings, 1 by Jaywhacker

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Jaywhacker wrote:
Sunflowers come close to being bulletproof. Grow them this year and next year they will be popping up everywhere. Ive got some popping up right in the middle of some heavy ground cover. You can plant them directly where you wont them to grow and not waste time on any fancy seed starting stuff or set backs due to transplanting. They are day neutral, meaning they dont care whether you have long or short days of sunlight so you can plant them all summer long and they will grow and flower in approximately 60 to 65 days. Sun flowers are tough dudes! Here are some growing in the top pots of some stacked containers. One was probably planted by a bird and the taller one I dug out of the yard and stuck in the pot. I have been deadheading the shorter one and it just keeps pumping out more flowers.