plant them??? the bird flew over to the smallish GG .. and deposited the seeds for me ....

my only suggestion is that you not interplant them .. too much competition is not good for plants that are trying to get established .....

so if i were planning to do it.. i would plant them away from the gg .. ken

Corn is easier.

And it's worth $.

And food.

I have wild ones (small heads, yellow flower)I leave to add some privacy and color. Also leave patches of them in the field for color and the dove eat the seed. Have planted the domestic ones before also. They make an ok screen. I think they're hardier than corn (at least the wild ones are)and need little care.

Corn sounds like a good idea, but I grew the "russian giant" sunflowers as a hedge and they did great. Worth setting up a soaker hose and feed them if soil is poor.

Maybe a mixed row of sunflowers and corn? The latter for food, and the former for flowers, and attracting birds to the seedheads in the winter.

Of course sunflower seeds are also edible for people, though a bit tedious to shell.

Resin

Yall are crazy wasting all that corn by eating it.
:-)

the other day, I drove by a house where a row of cannas were growing all along a front wrap around porch.

It did not look bad, but I wondered what they do for privacy after the cannas go dormant. I guess they might not care since by then it may be cool enough to prevent them from wanting to sit on the porch.

At least you privacy planting design includes evergreen trees