Seeds Are Forming

You are more than welcome Marilyn, I will be looking for that post.

I almost did lol. It is a good memory.

Ah burping used to be big business when my sons were young. Thanks for the kind words about my pic.

She ended up laughing with us, she got over it. I cleaned it up. Thanks

I bet that was funny to see. It's a great memory I have of my dad.

The squirrels are pretty good at getting just what they want.

@fishtiger58 I have had both, there might be a different taste, but I still prefer the ones that are shelled. lol

@Carmelanirel2 I can only eat so many seeds with the shells the salt gets to my tongue after a while.

Actually the flavor of sunflower seeds in the shell are better than the shelled ones. I'm not sure why but that's always been my impression. And because of my dad I have always eaten sunflower seeds.

Thanks I'm so glad you like it.

@fishtiger58 Yes, understand.

Sounds like our yard. That's ok good fertilizer for the lawn.

@DaddyEvil It was outside, that was his domain, I suppose he could have spit them all over the table all the time. Often he would spit the shells in his ashtray when he was inside. I just think that was part of my dad, and my mom accepted it. He was a good husband and father. He didn't drink. He went to work every day. There are certainly much worse things in life, it made my dad happy, he had to have those sunflower seeds. So really I think it was no big deal to my mom. If she had to clean up a few shells she just did. I don't think I ever heard her complain about it. And on the day in question I think she just showed her disgust as part of the fun of it all. You know how that is.

@fishtiger58 Ohh yea, that is pretty amazing :D

This is actually part of one plant, I will show you the whole thing here with my comment. The shot at the top is a macro of just part of one sunflower.

@gudheart thanks I do love the macro photos. they are usually pretty amazing.

they are so good and healthy as well.

@fishtiger58 I'll have to give them a go, i need to eat more healthily.

@Dragonairy1 you should most people like the shelled seeds, but I prefer the ones with the shells they taste better but they are hard to deal with.

I like them shelled as well. But the ones with shells really do taste better than the shelled ones.

@fishtiger58 I used to eat them all the time when I was in grade school. There was a little store across the street from the school, in fact I think that's what the store was called. It had all kinds of school supplies and snacks. I always got the sunflower seeds.

@just4him We always had bags and bags of sunflower seeds at home. My mom didn't dare run out lol.

I love them too, the shelled ones are good but there is more flavor in the ones with the shell I think.

They came out good aye Ryan? I think we have only grown one, one time. Not sure why we haven't again.

We grew one once but haven't since. Not sure why not.

you can get them shelled but I prefer the ones with the shells, they taste better.

It was winter lol.

I think they grow over a good part of the US