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Lauren Bradbury

How to harvest sunflower seeds - you'll need to act soon if you want to grow these sunny blooms for free next year

Sunflower seeds being scooped up.

Learning how to harvest sunflower seeds for planting is something every savvy gardener should know how to do. If you enjoy growing these sunny blooms every year, instead of buying a small pack of new seeds, you could easily double the number of sunflowers in your garden each year for free!

Harvesting seeds is one of the best ways to propagate sunflowers for free, and you only need to harvest from one sunflower head to get more than enough seeds to fill your garden, gift to your friends/family/neighbours and still have some leftovers to feed the birds. No, we're not exaggerating.

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