Sunflower - Mammoth Grey Stripe Seeds
Sunflower - Mammoth Grey Stripe Seeds
This mammoth Grey Striped Sunflower produces nutritious white and grey-striped seeds. The massive bright yellow blooms have feathery petals and large chocolate brown centers full of seeds. Thin-shelled, striped seeds are plump and meaty with high oil content. Plants grow 6-12' tall and produce flowers that range from 10-12″ across.
Sunflower seeds can be planted directly into the garden soil.
Sow seed directly into the garden in late spring to early summer or start seeds indoors in 4 weeks before spring frost danger has ended.
Plant seeds 1” deep and 6” apart. They should come up in 8-10 days depending on the soil temperature and grow quickly in warm weather. After the seeds sprout thin plants to at least 12" apart. First blooms appear 60-90 days after emergence.
They grow well in poor soil and will tolerate heat and dry conditions.
Each packet contains 50 Sunflower - Grey Stripe seeds. Helianthus annuus. Annual. Open-pollinated, heirloom, Non-GMO.Harvest after 100 days. $3.00
This packet plants a 25' row with 25 plants after thinning.
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Sunflower seeds are edible.
Eat the seeds raw, or season and roast for added flavor. There are countless benefits to adding them to your bread recipes, salads, and sandwiches. Sunflowers are known for their delicious seeds and perhaps the lesser-known fact is you can eat the entire sunflower; stalk, leaves, petals, and seeds.
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All sorts of bees and butterflies are attracted to these big flowers, they're fun to watch at just above eye level. We saw a monarch on one this summer! Perfect to grow along a fence or amongst the pumpkins and beans for a three-sisters garden. :)
Wow, these were the largest sunflowers I've grown, ours got quite tall around 9' and had a big head. We saw lots of bees and even a couple Monarchs on the blooms and later some Goldfinches were sampling the seeds so we left some of the heads on for them. We also collected and tried some of the seeds as well, and kept some of the harvest to put out in the winter feeder for the birds. An all around winner for the garden. Pretty happy blooms, and a wildlife magnet!
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