Beautiful, cheery sunflowers offer beauty for your garden and the promise of a delicious snack in the form of their seeds. Norbert Zingel / 500px / Getty Images Known for their brilliant yellow blooms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dry, harvest, and prepare homegrown sunflower seeds with these quick tips The Spruce / Colleen & Shannon Graham Sunny yellow ...

If you've noticed your sunflowers are starting to droop and look a little less sunny, think about saving the seeds. Each head can contain 1,000 seeds or more. It would be a shame to let them all go to ...

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 ...

Not only a stunning plant, sunflowers produce delicious and healthy seeds packed with calcium. These seeds are perfect for snacks and the birds love them! A sunflower head is ready for harvest when ...

It is sunflower season in the sunflower state and harvest is just around the corner, starting mid-September into October. As seed heads begin to ripen, protecting them from birds is essential. said ...

The towering faces have started to bow, petals crisping, birds already casing the joint. You want seeds for next year — fat, viable, true to type — but the weather is turning, and the internet is a ...

Sunflowers add a splash of late-summer color to gardens and landscapes, but they are more than just pretty flowers. The seeds produced by these plants are a tasty treat for people and wildlife. Take ...

Longtime readers of this column know I have a running battle with squirrels in the garden. Digging up perfectly good plants, stealing fruit from trees, or throwing things to chase off intruders, I’m ...

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 ...