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Sunflowers are beautiful flowers that are fun and easy to grow in a home garden. Check out this TabStart page to explore planting directions for sunflowers, including information on spacing, watering, seeding, and much more. Also included here is useful information on avoiding common pests and diseases associated with sunflowers.
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History and Uses of Growing Sunflowers - This article from the University of Missouri's Agronomy Department explains the history and uses of growing sunflowers. This page additionally discusses sunflower growing, rotation, site selection, planting, and weed control.
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Growing Sunflowers - From Perdue University's Center for New Crops and Plant Products comes this article that examines the sunflower growth process, in addition to its planting and environmental requirements. This comprehensive resource also features a chart on major sunflower diseases and symptoms.
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Growing Sunflowers - This step-by-step guide on growing sunflowers includes an explanation on selecting your sunflowers. This page also ioffers a materials list and helpful sunflower growing tips.
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Plant Files: Sunflower - This short but informative guide offers information on sunflower spacing, sun exposure, bloom time, foliage, and more.
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Tips on Growing Sunflowers - This site has informative tips for growing sunflowers. These tips are divided into categories that include harvesting, crop rotation, and protecting developing seedlings.
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Sunflower Growing Tips - This Texas A&M University article provides tips on a variety of flowers, including sunflowers. Take a look at their combination tips for planting.
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Sclerotinia Diseases of Sunflower - This North Dakota State University article discusses a common disease that occurs in the sunflower seed, sclerotinia. It offers tips for spotting the disease, explains the disease cycle, and recommends ways to avoid this disease.
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Sunflower Diseases - This handy resource offers an extensive list of all of the diseases that a sunflower plant can attain. The diseases are categorized here as bacterial, fungal, and parasitic.