[NAFEX] Allelopathic Sunflowers?
Heron Breen
breen at fedcoseeds.com
Thu May 19 17:50:24 EDT 2005
Hi Doreen,
I had sunflowers scattered in amongst my nursery stock beds last year and they did
fine. I would temper this by saying I have very fertile soil in my garden/nursery
and there were probably only two dozen sunflowers. I just throw the seed around for
fun with my sun from low germ lots I get at work free. These were
either "tarahumara" (sp?) or "mammoth grey stripe" varieties. Oh yes and "prado red
sun"!
Seems okay...
Heron Breen
zone 4, Maine
On Thu May 19 15:42 , 'Doreen Howard' <gardendiva at charter.net> sent:
>Sunflowers can be allelopathic to weeds and some crops, I've read. Has
>anyone planted them among their fruit trees? If so, what results have you
>had? I have a 50 foot long bed I prepared and thickly mulched to hold dwarf
>and miniature fruit trees. So far, I only have a Compact Stella cherry and
>a dwarf Shipova planted there. I'd like to plant giant and cutting
>sunflowers in
>the rest of the bed this summer, since the ground is empty.
>Doreen Howard
>IL-WI Border--Zone 4b/5a
>
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