hello, beguinning this summer I planted soem sunflowers
but how do I know when I can harvest them for their seeds ?
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thanks you for your fast answerrainbowgardener wrote:After the heads are hanging over, all of the head of the sunflower and petals are brown and dry, and the seeds are dark and firm and come out readily. In my experience though, the birds will eat them well before this, unless you bag/ cover the head so they can't get to it.
sry for my late response because my pc died on me ...
well the head is hanging, the petals are yellow but are falling off
the seeds are still white though
so got any advice ?
ty for takeing your time reading this
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I remember posting a detailed description of how I harvested sunflower seeds one year, but cursory search hasn't turned it up.
...here's a different post I made that is less detailed:
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/vi ... 99#p153299
...here's another one:
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/vi ... 524#p84524
(I'm referring you to these posts since I wrote them when the details were fresher in my mind than now. This year's sunflower seeds are not ready to harvest yet. )
...here's a different post I made that is less detailed:
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/vi ... 99#p153299
...here's another one:
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/vi ... 524#p84524
(I'm referring you to these posts since I wrote them when the details were fresher in my mind than now. This year's sunflower seeds are not ready to harvest yet. )