Here’s to those gardeners who aspire to grow great big sunflowers next season. All that’s needed is a tad bit of a household ...

Sunflower seeds are considered to be the fruits of the sunflower plant. Shelled (and sometimes salted) sunflower seeds are a common snack or salad topping. Sunflower seeds contain antioxidants and ...

Dry, harvest, and prepare homegrown sunflower seeds with these quick tips Sunny yellow sunflowers are commonly grown as ornamentals and cut flowers, and their nectar-filled blooms attract ...

The Steinbach and Area Garden Club decided to have a friendly competition to see who could grow the tallest sunflower and the ...

In the gardens of the growers who hope their giant vegetables will top the scales, or stretch to the longest, at the Great ...

A tall and large, fast-growing annual with oval to heart-shaped, roughly hairy green leaves. In summer, they produce wonderfully large sunny yellow flower with a chocolate brown centre up to 30cm ...

Record readers will likely remember Scott Loewen from past years when he’s grown giant pumpkins – and then sailed one in ...

Here are a few varieties you may want to try: • The towering “Mammoth” variety is the traditional giant sunflower, sometimes growing to more than 12 feet tall. Its seeds are excellent for ...

A clump-forming perennial, up to 2.5m in height, with narrow, coarse green leaves and small flowers in late summer and early autumn, with dark yellow centres and yellow ray florets on dark reddish to ...

Recently, I harvested some giant sunflowers. It is one thing to sow a seed and watch it grow yourself ... and transport it to others with the glow of God’s goodness all over their faces. When all is ...