Find out when to harvest sunflowers for microgreens, cut flowers, and edible seeds. Sunflowers are the unofficial mascots of summer with their sunny, golden-yellow petals and oversized blooms.

If your sunflowers bloom in August, you can expect to harvest sunflower seeds in September. Want more gardening tips? Sign up for our free gardening newsletter for our best-growing tips ...

"It couldn't have been a more perfect anniversary gift than a field of sunflowers," Renee Wilson said ahead of her golden wedding anniversary Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE.