Last year we grew some enormous and very beautiful sunflowers. This year we are particpating in the Yates Sunflower Challenge. We have planted many sunflower seeds around our school gardens, some of which are donated from Yates as part of the challenge to grow the biggest sunflowers.
We also had save some of our seeds from our sunflowers which we also planted.
As we had so many seeds, Level 1 and 2 students designed and created their own packet to contain some seeds to take home to plant. We talked about what information might need to be on their packet and what we would need to consider when planting our seeds.
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We would LOVE to come out and visit once the sunflowers have grown and share it on "irresistble ideas".
Donna :) :)
Hi Ruth, Just thought I'd leave a message to tell you I dropped by. Your blog is an inspiration! Well done you! There are so many ideas here that I can use to inspire kids in my own little part of Australia to be more awake in their care of the environment. Thank you for letting others look inside what you are doing - I have really enjoyed reading and learning. Regards, Deb Hogg (Sydney)
Thanks so much Deb for your comments. It is important for our kids to love their environment and make thoughtful sustainable choices when playing and interacting with it .....sometimes difficult in this consumer oriented world.... What is your situation? Are you teaching? Love to hear what you are up to. Regards, Ruth
Thanks Donna. You are most welcome any time!!!
I have really big and tall sunflowers. They have multiple flowers on one plant. Two plants have multiple flowers. The sad thing is that my youngest sunflower died (the stem snapped). I'm going to eat some sunflower seeds and let some grow (collect them then plant). Bye! Ethan
Good on you Ethan!! Isn't it great that something fun like growing plants from seed can give us so much. They are gorgeous, happy flowers and the seeds are soooo yummmy! I love the fact that you are going to save some seed in order to grow some more plants....very sustainable and a great way to garden. Let me know how you go!
I am going to bring some photos today (Friday) and next week. My sunflowers are really,really tall. I like my sunflowers. The bees are going crazy on them. By the way, one of my photos look 'green' because the magenta ink ran out. Bye! Ethan (again) :)
I will look forward to seeing your photos Ethan. See you on Tuesday!
Hey Mrs Bode, I harvested more than 200 grams of sunflower seeds. There were some sunflower seeds that weren't properly formed yet, but we were attacked by lots of aphids(greenfly to be exact). We roasted most of them and they were delicious! I still kept some prize winning ones to plant. By the way, striped sunflower seeds are for eating and the black ones are for oil, so the sunflowers with striped seeds get top heavy and tilt so they face the ground and then the birds can't get the seeds and they are also better for eating. If you don't agree with me then tell me, and I will bring a few to eat. Love EC
Wow! Fantastic Ethan! You certainly know your sunflower seeds. I think we had some sunflowers at school which had stripes and some which had black seeds so you have described their purpose well. How did you roast them? How long did you have to have them in the oven?
p.s Have a great holiday! ;)
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