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Salt N' Snack is one of the top snack sunflower hybrids used by commercial growers around the world. Now home gardeners and market growers can produce eating quality sunflowers, too. Sturdy plants produce large solitary heads loaded with large seeds filled with big kernels. Over plant and thin 6 inch plants to about 1 foot apart in rows 30 inches apart to promote large heads. Larger heads maximize the seed size. Harvest the seeds when dry, but protect them from the birds in the garden while you wait. Soak the cleaned seeds in salt water for a few hours, pat them dry, and roast them in the oven.
The Velvet Queen Sunflower produces huge, beautiful velvety red blooms that are absolutely unforgettable in the garden or a vase. This variety can measure up to 8 inches across and will very freely bloom all summer long. The Velvet Queen is truly the queen of sunflowers!
Towering 8-10' tall sunflowers that produce giant heads reaching up to 12" in diameter. Once mature, these heads are loaded with hundreds of glossy black seeds.
