How to sow your free sunflower seeds - Six Months of Seeds

Your March subscriber edition comes with a free double-pack of seeds of a wildflower Pollinator Mix and a sunflower Sunburst Mix from Mr Fothergill's. The Sunburst Mix will produce a glorious mix of flowers in vibrant shades of red, orange and yellow.

Get the best possible results by following our step-by-step video sowing guide, below.

You Will Need

• Sunflower seeds
• 7cm pots
• 9cm pots
• Multi-purpose compost
• Pencil or dibber
• Plant label
• Watering can with rose attachment

Step 1

Pour multi-purpose compost into a small pot. Gently tamp it level to about 1cm below the rim, to leave room for watering.

Step 2

Push the seeds into the compost to a depth of around 1.5cm. Space them about 3cm apart from each other.

Step 3

Water using a small watering can with a rose, so the seeds are not dislodged.

Step 4

Pricking out: Gather your seedlings, some slight larger pots, fresh multi-purpose compost and a dibber. Fill one new pot with compost.

Step 5

Holding a seedling by a leaf, use the dibber to lever it out of the compost, taking care to bring all of the roots with it.

Step 6

Make a new hole for each seedling in the new pot, several centimetres apart, then lower in the seedlings. Firm in and water gently.

Step 7

Water well, using a watering can with a rose attachment.

Coming up - more free seeds

April: Tomato and basil

The taste of summer. Packs worth £4.80

• Tomato 'Red Cherry' - heavy crops of small fruits with delicious, sweet fruits flavour. Can be grown outside or in an unheated greenhouse
• Basil 'Lettuce Leaf' - this unusual basil bears enormous, frilly-edged leaves, which have a sweet aromatic flavour you can enjoy all summer long

May: Cosmos and carrot

A couple of classics in this double pack worth £5

• Cosmos 'Purity' - this much-loved favourite will give you a dazzling display of large white flowers right through summer. Also great for cut flowers
• Carrot 'Royal Chantenay 3' - sow direct in the ground, or in containers. Kids will love growing and eating this fast-growing variety and the small, sweet roots are delicious cooked whole

June: Zinnia and cornflower

Get speedy results with this colourful couple, worth £4.80

• Zinnia 'Early Wonder' – large dahlia-like blooms in a mix of showy, vibrant colours
• Cornflower 'Blue Ball' - easy to grow, with masses of bee-friendly blooms, cornflowers are the perfect cottage garden flower