Autumn Beauty Sunflower Mix

Autumn Beauty Sunflower Mix contains a colorful blend of orange, yellow, bronze and red sunflower blooms. This variety works great for cut flower production, but will also attract pollinators to the garden for increased vegetable production. Plants are branching and produce many long, strong stems with blooms that are 4-6" in diameter. Autumn Beauty Sunflower Mix is very productive and a single plant can produce up to 20 blooms! It works great when planted on the border of the vegetable garden as it provides beauty and brings plenty of bees for pollinating vegetable plants. Harvest these for cut flowers or allow to remain on the stalk and dry. Once dried, stalks may be easily cut with a machete.

Autumn Beauty Sunflower Mix can be direct seeded or transplanted. Direct-seeding sunflowers can be easily done with a walk-behind planter like our Hoss Garden Seeder. We recommend using a #3 seed plate and modifying the hole size to fit the variety being planted. Sunflower seed size can vary greatly from one variety to the next, therefore it's important to always calibrate the seed plate hole size for the variety being planted. Sunflowers grow well when planted on double rows with drip irrigation. Lay one row of drip tape and plant on both sides of the tape to maximize garden space. Sunflowers also perform well when transplanted. They grow great in our heavy-duty seed starting trays. Transplants are ready to go in the ground when plants can be easily pulled from the seed starting trays. For increased storage potential, harvest sunflowers when blooms are closed. Blooms will then open when cut and placed into a container with water.