Sunny yellow sunflowers are commonly grown as ornamentals and cut flowers, and their nectar-filled blooms attract pollinators, too. Bonus: after their flowers fade, sunflowers continue to reward ...

Pick sunflower seeds when heads droop, turn yellow-brown, and petals fall—usually late summer. Cut heads with stem, dry upside down indoors, then rub seeds out once dry. Roast plain seeds 5–7 mins at ...

Sunflowers are obviously sun-loving plants and they don’t do well in the cold, so you’ll want to start prepping the soil for planting well after the temperature has stayed above 50 degrees during both ...

Harvesting your own sunflower seeds is a rewarding end-of-summer activity. Sunflowers are annuals, completing their life cycle in one season. Annuals have four main developmental phases from seed to ...

TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. — Brown Hill Farms in Lemon Township near Tunkhannock are known for their flowers. "In the spring, we grow tulips, almost five acres of tulips, and in the summer, about August, we ...

Few flowers are as cheerful as sunflowers. With bright golden-yellow petals and stems as tall as 15 feet, sunflowers are stunning additions to any garden or yard. If you're wondering how long it takes ...

STEELE, N.D. -- It's been a sunny sunflower harvest in October, says James Cusey of Steele, N.D. It's a far cry from last year when most farmers don't remember a single sunny day. "We've had an ...

John Sandbakken has been hearing from young Upper Midwest farmers interested in raising sunflowers in 2020. "They tell me, 'We haven't had sunflowers on this farm since my grandpa had them (decades ...