I have been planting sunflowers for several year just for the birds. I typically use my 72" tiller to get the area ready. Then plant using my grandfather's JD two row planter. I use the same plate and set up as I use for sweet corn. I have had real good success. I mix seed 50/50 with big strips and the small black oil seed sold for bird seed. I have been using sunflower seed sold as bird seed as my seed. Just freeze it for a week before planting. The big strips, I purchased seed years ago but now I just harvest several heads for the next year's seed and just freeze it for a week. I typ leave the sunflowers stand till the next year. Since I started doing this I have slowly added more each year by tilling more yard under, as it saves my mowing time and I love the progression of birds coming in. First the finches, then the doves, then the hawks.
The black seeds only get about 4 to 5 feet tall and are all eat up by August. The big stripes get 10 to 12 feet tall and last till about Nov.
I have broad cast seed by hand as well and that did work good. Till ground. broad case seed. tilled it a second time, just going real fast and not very deep.
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