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<blockquote data-quote="nxy" data-source="post: 7633643" data-attributes="member: 466"><p>I don't know what they base it on but they say don't direct drill. In their crop guide they say "Sunflowers like fine, well-structured soils with a warm seedbed. The practice of direct sowing does not appear to be suitable for planting sunflowers." They back this up with pictures of sunflower tap roots with 90 degree bends in them.</p><p></p><p>I don't have a direct drill but we have drilled them with a vaderstad rapid into ground moved shallow using a vaderstad carrier and they weren't great. Though perhaps "double discs" was part of the problem.</p><p></p><p>The difference could be because we are trying to get them in in good time, ideally April, to bring our harvest date forward so the ground is often colder and wetter than would be ideal. This would be less of a problem if they were planted later with no intention of harvesting or in the warm/dry soil of Australia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nxy, post: 7633643, member: 466"] I don't know what they base it on but they say don't direct drill. In their crop guide they say "Sunflowers like fine, well-structured soils with a warm seedbed. The practice of direct sowing does not appear to be suitable for planting sunflowers." They back this up with pictures of sunflower tap roots with 90 degree bends in them. I don't have a direct drill but we have drilled them with a vaderstad rapid into ground moved shallow using a vaderstad carrier and they weren't great. Though perhaps "double discs" was part of the problem. The difference could be because we are trying to get them in in good time, ideally April, to bring our harvest date forward so the ground is often colder and wetter than would be ideal. This would be less of a problem if they were planted later with no intention of harvesting or in the warm/dry soil of Australia. [/QUOTE]
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