The sunflower has a rich history as a North American native plant. Records show that as early as 3000 B.C., Native Americans cultivated sunflowers as food and pressed seeds to make oil. Although still ...

Seed priming has been successfully used to improve germination and seedling establishment of many vegetables and field crops. Laboratory tests and field experiments were conducted in 2011 and 2012 at ...

Continuation of our seed germination time lapse series. Each seed was planted in a clear glass jar/container near the edge to ...

Sunflowers are the exuberant darlings of the summer garden, and you can still plant them in August. No garden edible grows at a greater rate than the sunflower. Certain varieties take only two months ...

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida residents about sunflowers, fan flowers, poinsettias, sod and cocktail ...

Sunflowers come in a myriad of colors and heights, ranging from two to 10 feet tall; both branching and single cut varieties exist, says Natasha McCrary, the owner and operator of 1818 Farms.