Natty Dread wrote:
I'm sure you master gardeners will laugh at me, but how does one grow a
sunflower to be 6 feet tall? [...]

You get a variety that will grow that tall. :-) One such has been sold
hereabouts as a Russian Sunflower, and has grown to over 8ft tall in my
front yard. It has white seeds, not black or brown ones, but the birds
don't care, they gobble them up anyway. I have no ides what other names
it goes by.