WAHPETON, N.D. -- After initial rejection and tough economic times, a North Dakota entrepreneur is realizing a major league dream. Just 16 years after two large corporations rejected his idea for ...

Gardening may be described as an activity that invokes serenity, but for breeders, it often signifies a purpose or a challenge. If you're neck-deep into the gardening world, you might have heard of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are many wonderful sunflower varieties, in colors from the lightest yellow to the deepest almost-black red. And they come in ...

There are nearly 70 different varieties of sunflowers, and they vary vastly in height. While it's possible to maximize the growth of your sunflowers, you can only do so much if you're working with a ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Most of the sunflowers in John Abbott’s Harrisburg backyard are about 8 feet tall…except for one. Abbott got the sunflower seeds from a neighbor and planted them in May. One ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – In the backyard of a home at the end of a cul-de-sac in Fort Wayne, you’ll find a garden fit for fairytales. The tomatoes are giant and the sunflowers are even bigger. “The ...

Many of us forget to deadhead our sunflowers to squeeze the last of the blooms from them, thinking somehow that they are programmed to create their great spinning plates of flower and that is it. But ...

Erik’s Giant Vegetables Contest is back, all ready for the digital age. Some of you might remember when I held the contest years ago, when you were kids. Maybe now you’ve got some of your own. You ...

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