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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums110 days ago I planted some sunflower seeds.
Today the first yellow showed.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I baked the heads slow after a salt bath, delicious. Enjoy.
Ptah
(32,983 posts)I usually flavor them with garlic.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)You're going to have visitors....👍🤣
Ptah
(32,983 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)I have a dozen hives on my property...
Half are mine and half belong to another beek...
He's a commercial keeper and uses my property as a queen breeding site...
I keep Italians and he keeps Buckfast...
Grammy23
(5,808 posts)Sadly, never got to see them in full glory. The danged squirrels decided to chow down on the blooms and snapped them off at the stem. Grrrr....
herding cats
(19,549 posts)I'm a gardener and I planted sunflowers with my two sweet little granddaughters this year. They're 2 and 3 years old.
I've been FaceTiming their progress and those of the various veggies and zinnias we'd planted together so long ago now.
The summer squashes are producing, as are the tomato and the zinnias are blooming.
We're a pod as far as social distancing goes, but every so often something happens (read: a jerk gets in our personal space) and we have to quarantine from each other for 2 weeks. Since my one granddaughter is high risk, as is my husband.
czarjak
(11,191 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)w/ led to more the next year + then we got red sunflower seeds & no matter what. we get dozens of blossoms.
denbot
(9,894 posts)I seem to recall you can grow giants.
On Edit: I guess I should have scrolled down before responding.. again.
Harker
(13,874 posts)Many species of birds, especially chickadees will be eating the seeds for months after the plant has dried up.
Ptah
(32,983 posts)The chickadees eat the leaves of the sunflowers.
The seeds are destined for my oven.
We had a huge sunflower stalk with over a dozen flower heads, but the seeds were tiny, so we let them go to the birds.
Chick-a-dee-dee-dee.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)It bloomed yesterday, full open. I have no idea how it got planted. I haven't been feeding the birds this year so it's not from bird seed.
Some of the construction crew were eating locally produced, organic granola - maybe it was from that or maybe one of the guys was eating sunflower seeds. It's a mystery.
It's got a lot of buds on it so I will let it bloom and let the seeds mature. Next year maybe I will spread some in the field south of the house - they'd be pretty and feed the birds.