I Cut Down Our Sunflowers… But I’m NOT Throwing Them Away!

This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Homegrown Passion”. 

Today I'm turning our summer raised bed into a fall vegetable garden — but we're not wasting those giant sunflower stalks!

I'm cutting down our sunflowers, preparing the raised bed, and planting carrots, beets, and bunching onions for a late-season Ohio garden. And because we're planting in September, there's one big question: did I wait too long?

I'll show you how I'm preparing the soil for root vegetables, how deep I'm planting each crop, why moisture is so important for carrot germination, and what I'm watching as colder weather approaches.

But the sunflower stalks aren't going to waste either. I'm saving the strongest ones, cleaning them up, drying them, and storing them so I can reuse them as FREE plant supports in next year's garden.

I love finding ways to use what we already grow here on the farm instead of throwing it away.

And if the temperatures start dropping too far, we'll come back to this raised bed and see how long we can keep these carrots, beets, and onions growing.

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00:00 Cutting Down the Sunflowers
00:51 Making Room for the Fall Garden
02:30 Which Sunflower Stalks Should You Save?
03:25 Come Hang Out With Me on Patreon
03:46 Are We Too Late for a Fall Garden?
04:42 Preparing Raised Bed Soil for Root Vegetables
06:09 Planting Carrots
07:48 Planting Beets
08:28 Planting Bunching Onions
09:05 How We Water Tiny Seeds
09:31 Preparing Sunflower Stalks for Garden Stakes
11:18 Did We Plant Too Late?