All my beautiful sunflowers are slowly fading away.
Everything on the northside of the Moby is done. And the southside is about half and half finishing up. It’s a little sad, but yet, they have a certain beauty as they finish.
And our bird friends have been working on some of them… and we have a squirrel as well that has figured out to pull down the stalk and strip the heads! He probably thinks he hit the jackpot when he stumbled onto the Moby homestead gardens!
I definitely was overrun with sunflowers this year, but it was such a wonderful problem to have. We had so many that they were a bit of a problem in a few areas, but I think that next year, they are definitely going to be planted a little differently, yet just as prolifically! I just love to look out and see them all over. And from any window!
Drying the heads in the sun is fun… a couple days and they toughen up a little bit and you can sit and mindless pick them out. It’s kinda of stress relieving. And silly fun. I think we’ll have a good 4 or 5 pounds of seeds, easily. Maybe not a whole lot, but still, it’s fun to grow even your own bird treats!
By the way… we are creeping up on our first big produce goal…. 48 pounds of good stuff off the gardens! It’s slowing down a little bit… the tomatoes are kinda getting a little bit finished… and the broccoli has bolted… well, the older broccoli. The fall crops we planted are going to town for sure. And the corn is still going strong. It’s going to be a bit of a race, but I think we’ll absolutely hit the 50 pound mark! Yeah!
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