Sunflower Yin Yang
Seed Head
Agathe and Opal put the sunflower heads outside on sunny days to dry and loosen the seeds, and brought them in every night to keep the critters away…
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drying
…until they were dry enough to rub the seeds out.
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de-seeding
it was time-consuming but fun to get each seed out…
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compost
…and even more time consuming to open up the seed husks!
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Yin Yang
But they discovered the joy of working together…
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seeds!
…the the satisfaction of a bowl full of sunflower seeds that they worked hard for…
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anticipation
…and hope for the future!
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Volunteer!
And a little tomato has ripened on the volunteer plant!!
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Me too, me too… So beautiful. Thank You, I eat them everyday, it is benefit for us. Thank You, Love, nia
You are welcome nia, I thought it was a wonderful project for the summer – beautiful, useful and healthy!
so lovely… are the seeds for the humans or the birds?
Thanks! We are going to make Aunt Marie’s Fennel bars using these sunflower seeds and some fresh harvested fennel seeds! A really good harvest supper contribution for Thanksgiving!
that is a lot of work for the little woodens. Do they have new sweaters? Very pretty.
I haven’t knitted them new sweaters in a while, but I have some scrap yarn…Growing, maintaining harvesting and processing the sunflowers was a lot of work! They are going to do something with the seeds for Thanksgiving – coming up soon!
I really love the photos in this post, the “yin yang” photo should be on the wall.
Thanks so much! We have really enjoyed the sunflower summer…We were lucky with the light and lucky with the sunflowers!
Enjoy your seeds!
We surely will!
I love harvesting sunflower seeds back when I had giant sunflowers! I would have helped the ladies with the harvest had I been there 🙂
I like the yin-yang design from the harvest!
They would have appreciated your help! It has been an entertaining and satisfying process, but their little hands were getting tired!
Oh how I wish I could wear a yellow sweater!
Their yellow sweaters make the Hittys feel sunshiny and smily!