Sunflowers can also be considered a “trap crop," meaning they may lure unwanted insects away from your vegetable crops.

Seed merchants have this market covered, too, with plants such as “Russian Giant” that can grow to 3m in ... is widely ...

annuus or the giant sunflower to harvest for seed that becomes sunflower oil and ... that grow in a wide range of flower colors—yellow, cream, orange, rose, red, burgundy, and bicolor.

There are also lots of different varieties (and they’re not all yellow ... want to eat your sunflower and harvest the seeds,” says Lucy. As the name suggests, giant sunflowers can grow ...

Seed spacing depends on the sunflower variety: Dwarf (2-5 feet tall): plant seeds 6 inches apart. Semi-dwarf (5-8): plant seeds 12 inches apart Giant (8-10): plant seeds 24 inches apart Cover the ...