Kids can have endless hours of fun playing in a room formed by walls of giant sunflowers, says show host Kim Haworth. Here's how you and your young garden helper should proceed: - Find an area in your garden with full sun and enough space for a little room.
- Improve the soil by adding organic compost.
- Mark out an area for the sunflower room, pouring lines of clean river sand or bread flour, making sure to leave space for a door (figure A).
- Dig a trench along the lines you laid out.
- Make holes for the seeds along the trench, telling children to poke their finger into the soil up to their first knuckle. Plant giant sunflower seeds thick so the "walls" of the room will be thick.
- Thoroughly water the seeds and keep them damp. They should sprout in 7-14 days, and should grow a room within 80 days.
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