Sunflowers, canola and dry edible bean crops have banner year Optimal weather conditions during the 2022 growing season appear to have yielded many farmers across the northern Plains and Montana ...

Previously, we have written about the importance of sunflowers in a native garden. If you can only plant one plant, plant a sunflower as you get so much value in one plant: beauty, habitat value, and… ...

Imagine stepping into your backyard, snipping a few fresh blooms and sprinkling them over a salad or smoothie bowl. It sounds fancy, like something you’d order at a farm-to-table restaurant, but ...

Call me a purist, but my vegetable garden is zoned for vegetables. By and large, the flowers go in the flower garden and the veggies are planted each year in deep, cushy soil prepared just for them, ...

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 ...

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 ...