The Mammoth Grey Striped sunflower is an heirloom variety that produces very large flowers (up to 14 inches) on one stalk. (NDSU photo)
Dakota Gardener: Growing giants
Dakota Gardener: Growing giants
“This is huge, it’s taller than the garage!”
The plant in question was a sunflower.
And it was, in fact, taller than the garage. What started as a pack of seeds I had gotten for 50% off at a local garden store and just tossed into a bare spot of my garden was now the first thing people noticed.
The sunflower variety was not an ornamental variety, like the ones I had growing in my other flower beds. T…