posted 4 years ago
Last fall we broadcast a white clover among our carrots after they were established. I am planning on planting sunflowers into this in a day or two. I am following Will Bonsall's advice and planting the sunflowers in hills of 3, spaced 3 feet between rows and 3 feet in the row. I will have 100 hills total (50 confectionary and 50 oilseed). They were started indoors a few weeks ago and are about 4" tall now and the true leaves emerged a couple days ago. In a week or two when the sunflowers are 6-8" high I will add pole beans, about 5 seeds per hill.
My question is: any advice on how to prepare the bed for transplanting the sunflowers in? I was thinking of scuffle hoeing little discs about 1 foot in diameter. Alternatives might be to increase/decrease the diameter of the disc, or to also work a strip connecting the discs-- maybe that would encourage the pole beans to seek out neighboring sunflowers? Thanks!
