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Wed, Jun 3, 09 at 14:59
| I eat a lot of sunflower seeds and over the winter I saved up a bunch of the hulls. They've all been boiled for sterilization then dried and are ready to hit the veggie garden for mulch. I just found this site however and am reading about the black oil sunflower seeds being toxic to other plants. I don't know if mine are black oil or not, to me, they're the kind you buy in 2/$1 packages in the party store.
Any thoughts on using the dried hulls as mulch in my raised beds? |
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| Stripped sunflower (the kind most often sold as food/snacks) hulls are just as allelopathic as black oil sunflower seeds. Use them as path mulch if you wish but not around plants you wish to keep or in soil where you will be planting transplants. Just Google "sunflower allelopathy" for lots of info. Dave |
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| Paths mulched with black oil or striped sunflower seed hulls. Or both, to make a checkerboard path. That is a really interesting landscaping idea. |
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- Posted by spottedhyena (My Page) on Tue, Dec 4, 12 at 20:19
| What about using it to grow oyster mushrooms on. Those eat anything and are very easy to cultivate and the spawn is freely available on eBay etc. |
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| I wasn't aware of this. People grow sunflowers in their community vegetable gardens in my town every year. I found one study that showed damage to a typical weed plant grown in a hydroponic solution that contained crushed sunflower petals. You could probably compost the seed hulls without harm, but I'd probably just throw them out. |
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