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<sub>One of my favorite is eating a **"healthy"** meal after gardening 😂</sub>


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Hi, this is me again **Khoola**,

Well, this week we have **favorites** as a theme for the #GroVid22 and @dreemport collaboration challenge with HiveGarden!

Here is a link as always: [GroVid22 Challenge 2 for HiveGarden with DreemPort: Favorites](https://ecency.com/hive-140635/@bluefinstudios/grovid22-challenge-2-for-hivegarden-with-dreemport-favorites)

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## <center> Tell us about your FAVORITE things about Gardens!</center>

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My favorite thing about gardening is looking at my wife's face as she admires the flowers and the garden. Yeah, that would be the truth... I do gardening because she loves it.

On a personal level, my favorite thing about gardens are doing **experiments**. One of my experiments is: can I can grow a **Giant Sunflower** on sand-based soil (I am living beside the sea). 🤔

Things you may not know about [Sunflowers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helianthus)

* The seeds when roasted pair good with beer 🤣.
* [Sunbutter](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbutter) if you haven't heard of it... this is an alternative to peanut butter. 🧐
* The flower head is actually made of hundreds or thousands of flowers. <sub>[src](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower#:~:text=The%20flower%20head%20is%20actually%20an%20inflorescence%20made%20of%20hundreds%20or%20thousands%20of%20tiny%20flowers%20called%20florets.)</sub>
* Sunflower is easy to grow 😲 (though my neighbor failed 🤣)

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<sub>My wife bought this online. First thought... roasting it then buy beer 🍺.</sub>
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I don't trust anything bought online, but I don't really have a choice because of Covid. A bag of Jumbo/Giant sunflower seed cost me about 2$ as far as I remember.

Started going online, researching heavily on how to grow it. After numerous research materials, I came up with this.
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![sunflower.jpg](https://images.ecency.com/DQmNYDH8Vnet3ZZTdFzajf11YeYAnPq9UZBkAHhAVKpT7fv/sunflower.jpg)<sub>How not to grow sunflowers by @khoola 😫</sub>

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1. A shallow plastic container to put my very own [compost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost) soil. I prefer a transparent one to see if the roots are out.
2. Plant the seeds in an organized manner. Doesn't need to be, I just like it that way.
3. Water it 🌦️
4. Cover it with plastic to keep the moisture in. 😁

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## <center> Truth be told it didn't grow after that!!! 😂 </center>
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I found that just putting the seed in a wet towel does the trick. Had 20 seeds sprouting within that week of covering them. I pick the best ones and put them in a plant bag. 3/5 grew well and transfered them in front of my house! 😍

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![sunsun.jpg](https://images.ecency.com/DQmPcDNbpjUjtNyJp6PSZroyPNWevEXwsx92Dzdr1Jv65hY/sunsun.jpg)<sub>Yup that is my daughter running around without her slippers. For some reason she always loses them. Grr... 😭</sub>
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My Giant Sunflower experiment ended with 3 plants growing at about 4 feet each with an average of 3 full blooms. Well, although it didn't grow as big as I wish it would but atleast it grew. 

I wasn't Home when the flowers seeds where harvested 😭 🍺. Guess that concludes my experiment, as sunflowers dies after full bloom 😭.

But that is not the end of my experiments. I also have a Mango tree in a relatively large "flower pot" inside my house. 🤣  I am trying to make a small tree... unsure what I am going to do if i succeed.

This is it for now! See you guys next week and thank you for reading!

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