Sunflower Garden Prep

Nothing like the brilliant and cheerful colors of sunflowers.  They are my favorite.  Every year they grace my garden.  Last year I started a section near the road as a neighbor indicated that she loves them as well. The dirt is hard and of poor quality.  It's been 4 full years since it has been treated with chemical weed killers and is now considered to be organic.  

Last year I worked in some organic gardening soil.  Throughout the winter, I added rabbit droppings and used hay for fertilizer.  

Today I worked it in the soil along with chopped straw and peat moss.

My raspberry bed had several volunteers

So they were dug up and 20 were transplanted in the freshly amended rows.

Chopped straw was laid around them to help hold in moisture. The tender plants were covered with old grow pots.

Then all of them were lightly soaked several times to ensure that the chopped straw was wet and not going to blow away in a light breeze.

They will be uncovered in the evenings and soaked for this week.  Depending on how well they take this process will take about a week or two.  Then they will be uncovered and enjoy the growing season.

Here's to a good transplant! Hoping to have sunflowers gracing our garden soon.