Mr Fothergills: Sunflower - Windowsill Tin

There is something magical about watching a sunflower grow. The seeds are big and easy for tiny fingers to handle. They grow fast and in 60 days you will be enjoying their bright and cheerful flowers.*_How To Grow_**PREPARE** To provide some drainage, place pebbles into the bottom of the tin before covering with soil. \* Put the Jiffy® soil pellets into a large bowl and add about 600ml of lukewarm water.* After 10 minutes you will have enough soil to fill your windowsill tin.* Loosen the soil with a table fork and put your new soil into the pot. Leave about 10% of the soil in the bowl to use later.*SOW** Make a small hole with the end of your finger in the soil for each the seeds.* Cover with 10mm of the soil you have left in the bowl and firm gently.* Water lightly and place in a warm well lit spot in your home.* Water regularly just enough to keep moist.* First shoots will appear in 10–14 days.* When the young plants are approximately 5cm tall, thin to leave only the 3 strongest plants. \* This allows the sunflowers to have plenty of space to develop.*CARE** Feed with half strength liquid fertiliser every 21–28 days to promote healthy growth.* Sunflowers are one of the quickest varieties to flower; you will have blooms in 8–10 weeks.*Features:** Each kit comes with a coloured metal pot with drainage holes and drip tray, seeds, soil pellet and plant tags with chalk board.* Dimensions (mm): 275L x 110W x 95H* Tin made of galvanised steel with zinc coating.* Sunflowers are a great flower for children to grow.* They are vigorous and fast growing, which helps to keep children engaged as they watch the plants sprout and grow up.*_Did you know?_*_Sunflowers follow the sun, in the morning they face the East and slowly track the sun across the sky. After dark, they reorient themselves to face the East again in the morning._

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Standard Delivery starts from just $5.95 per shipment.

Delivery starts out at just $5.95 per shipment. As the size and weight of shipments increase, so does the freight price. To ensure every customer pays a fair price for delivery, an exact shipping price will be displayed to you in the checkout based on the size and weight of the products in your order and your delivery address.

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