Well, for those of you who are new to the blog, please check out my first post on the grand 2013 Sunflower plan 🙂

So its grown a bit, I have confirmed with Farmer R that he has no issues with me growing Sunflowers on my buffer zone, and that it will not effect his crops, he was also kind enough to give me a timing on the two times he will be spraying so that I could plan my planting around it.

So there has been a slight modification on the plans themselves, in that I am going to be growing different kinds of sunflowers, one side is going into Mammoth Russian, these suckers can grow 8 to 10 feet tall and produce heads as big an heavy as 5 pds each..

If you think these look like something you know, that is because this is the kind of sunflower seed used to make spits from..

The second row is going to be grown as black oil seeds, most folks know these as the smaller solid black sunflower seeds you buy to put in your bird feeders, they only grow 3 to 4 feet high and they max out at around 2 pds  per head, they have a much! higher fat content then the Russians do a above..

The third and shortest fenceline is growing sunflowers that are for cutting, they are pollenless and are meant for the table, you have no doubt seen them at the florist or peeking out at you with its bright sunshine face in the buckets at the farmers markets.

In my food forest garden, I am putting in smaller multi-colored and flowering sunflowers, they can make small heads but they are mainly there to help feed the pollinators and to work the soil.