10/21/2026
Sunflowers make me sooo happy! 😍🌻✨ Like sunshine in a bloom! ☀️🌻
Here are my sunflower tips and tricks: 🌻🌻
The sunflowers with the green and gold center are Procut Gold Lite and the sunflowers with the black centers are Procut Orange. I love all of the Procut varieties and I get my seeds from Johnny's Selected Seeds and GeoSeed 🌻🌻
I start all of my sunflowers in 72 cell trays in the greenhouse to give them a head start against all the critters and bugs that love to eat them when they’re tiny. I plant 5 rows of sunflowers at 6 in spacing. The closer together the smaller the bloom - I love this small/medium bloom size it’s perfect for bouquets!
I seeded these sunflowers on 9/4 and planted them out on 9/17 - just 2 weeks in the greenhouse. Now I’m harvesting them on 10/21 so just 47 days from seed to bloom this time of year and at this spacing - sooo fast! 😍✨
Everything loves eating sunflowers and especially this time of year 😆 I have tons of caterpillars on my sunflowers but I don’t spray anything on them because I don’t want to harm bees and beneficial insects - I walk the field and hand pick off the caterpillars and feed them to my chickens. Wasps are a great help too they eat caterpillars!
Are you going to start growing more sunflowers?? Let me know if you have any tips or tricks that work for you! 🌻☀️✨