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Good video, I dry my sunflowers for next year ect.
Have you grilled the heads yet? AMAZING treat.
Always so beautiful, such big heads!
We are doing the same thing right now. It's our first time harvesting the seeds. We're so excited!
The birdies will love it 😊
What is the next step to process them? Do you roast and salt them? How do you preserve them? Are they good raw?
I’m also harvesting and hang drying my plants :)! But they are marijuana plants
You should also pull out the sunchokes they are delish like lowcarb potato
I get really sticky when I process these. When I do this again, I'm going to try to collect the oils on something like nitrile gloves. Don't know if it'll work yet. I like that you took them inside to dry. I waited a bit long with some, and the squirrels were harvesting them before me! I find it interesting the stage of ripeness you chose for the harvest before bringing them in. I want these in my Walnut guilds so the allelopathy doesn't kill my other crops. I learned the hard way because my proximal 3 sisters plantings suffered. Even though the 3 sisters and Sunflowers/Sunchokes are all Juglone tolerant, I am definitely placing the Sunflowers further away from the sisters next time.
Just watched a YouTube short from China (I think) where the guy cuts off the head, cuts off about a 3rd of the stem, then slams the head onto the stem face up to dry in the sun.
It doesn't get buggy?
I’m leaving my sun flower stalks to grow climbing/ vining plants next season. I would just be cautious to not dry any seeds to close to the stove.
I’m a big fan of chop/drop, or reusing stalks/sticks for tomato cages/bean poles for the next year…BUT I have learned to chop up those sunflower stalks and get them broken down because next year they’ll attract Yellowjackets, who will forage them for nesting material if they’re still around in their dried state. So dried sunflower stalks are banned in my yard, I bust em up when I’m chopping and dropping. If that’s not enough, get ‘em under a pile of compost.