Harvesting Sunflower Seeds? Here’s the Best Time to Do It originally appeared on Parade Home & Garden. If you planted sunflowers this season, there’s an extra bonus beyond enjoying their big, ...

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 ...

The 2023 sunflower harvest in the upper Midwest was slowed by a late October snowstorm, but it is progressing. Meanwhile, USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) released its harvest prices for 2023 ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY/ANTRIM COUNTY (WPBN/WGTU) -- If you've been down US-31 near Williamsburg, you can't help but notice the acres and acres of sunflower fields in the middle of summer. Now with ...

It's not always wise to judge a book by its cover or, in the case of a sunflower crop, by its appearance. Though sunflower plants can look droopy and brown by the time harvest time rolls around, it's ...

A large field of sunflowers at Lake Metroparks Farmpark in Kirtland looked a lot less colorful by the end of the day on Sept. 19. That’s because thousands of people who attended a special event at ...

BALDWIN, N.D. (KFYR) - North Dakota is the top sunflower-producing state in the nation, but as harvest takes place, farmers grapple with rising concerns about the health of sunflower oil. Warm, sunny ...

The corn and sunflower harvest is nearing completion in the state, thanks to a week of warmer-than-normal temperatures and little precipitation, the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service said.