They Have Planted Their Own Seeds
@GardenGerty (169406)
United States
July 22, 2019 12:26pm CST
I have a couple of varieties of sunflowers coming up all over the yard. It seems the birds have planted from the food I was giving them. Now they can harvest their own sunflower seeds directly.
It is a lot of fun to see what is new every day at our home.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
23 Jul 19
I like sunflowers. They make me smile when I see them.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
23 Jul 19
Really is and it is also how God designed nature to work. I leave them in place to feed the birds and smile when I see them.
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
23 Jul 19
@GardenGerty It is amazing how our Father works. 
@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
22 Jul 19
I need to dig up a pumpkin vine that I found while weeding today and try to move it. I have them surprising me everywhere this year.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
23 Jul 19
Best crop of pumpkin I ever had grew in the compost bin and hung on the fence.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
24 Jul 19
@GardenGerty Thats basically what I planted in. I cleaned the barn and dumped it in tires.
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
22 Jul 19
how purty! yes ma'am, they've done the same 'round here 'n they do come'p'n the oddest 'f places. i'm waitin' fer 'em to start bloomin' here. i've some by the road that're near 6' tall, most likely from those we planted'n the garden last year'n not from the store bought seeds we feed the birds, lol. come winter, we gather the seed heads'n hang 'em 'round the fences (backyard) so's there'd be some protection from the winds fer the birds to 'njoy.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
23 Jul 19
I will keep that in mind. May hang mine around the compost bin or on the lattice screen I set up for my houseplants.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
23 Jul 19
@GardenGerty sounds good :) then next spring yer gonna see lil sprouts from yer compost pile, lol. ask me how i know? no worries, they'll transplant well.
@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
22 Jul 19
I did that once! My neighbours admired my display of sunflowers dotted among bronze lettuces. I had to explain that the birds were responsible for the sunflowers, and the lettuces were the result of me spreading compost too soon after previously putting a gone-to-seed lettuce on the heap.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
23 Jul 19
Oh, it sounds beautiful to me. I have a volunteer cucumber from one that went to seed last year.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
23 Jul 19
@GardenGerty Sometimes it's quite useful isn't it? I got a lot of tasty accidental broccoli this year!
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
23 Jul 19
Maybe next year I will see a sea of sunflowers! Love it.
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.@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
23 Jul 19
Yes, it is. The ones that are doing well were seeded in places the mower does not get to.
@psanasangma (7910)
• India
23 Jul 19
Anything growing cause of birds are always blessing !
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
25 Jul 19
Yes, it is. I have many things that they have planted. I got to see a bird eating seeds from this flower this morning.
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
23 Jul 19
And I am going to leave them growing. They also planted mullein last year. It is a biennial and so I look forward to seeing it bloom next year.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
22 Jul 19
I bet that is a pretty scene. Mine did not come up or got ate before they sprouted.
I had a flock, is it flock? of red birds feeding in the yard earlier, so many they tripped the alarm in the yard.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
23 Jul 19
O wow! Red birds setting off an alarm. Some people believe that red birds or cardinals are the spirits of loved ones visiting you. I have some cultivated type sunflowers that I never seem to get planted. Too late for this year.
@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
22 Jul 19
Oh that is so fun! I would love to see random sunflowers just popping up in my yard haha
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