John,  When do you cut your sunflowers and how do you dry them?  I tried it
once but I think I cut them too soon or didn't dry them correctly as they
got moldy and I gave them to the birds, which is OK too as I buy lots of
bird seed during the winter.

I have a vegetable garden but also have a flower garden which has been here
as long as I can remember.  It is quite overgrown with weeds and brambles
now and I am working as time and season permits to get it into shape.
There are a lot of those "Chinese Lantern" plants there that were there
when I was a kid.

We also have acres of plants that can be burned and the menfolks are busy
cutting them during the warmer months so we can burn them in the furnace
during the winter.  Dad always said that the trees were growing and
maturing on the farm at a faster rate than we could burn them.  We still
don't sell firewood though, too much work to cut it.  Ruth



At 9:42 PM -0600 2/3/05, John Callan wrote:
>I like to grow sunflowers too Ruth.  I guess I like them 'cause there
>big and beautiful AND tasty.  I grew artichokes once.  But the flower
>was so pretty all the plants went to flower instead of fruit.  But
>normally, I like plants I can eat...or burn.
>
>-jc
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