We feed sunflower seeds to the bids year-round. You may have noticed that we have the most-photographed bird feeder in the history of bird feeders. We also have five planters that we place around the garden, four in the back where the feeder is and one around front, nowhere near the feeder.
Each spring, we prepare the soil in these pots, carefully select fine healthy plants from the nursery and carefully tend, feed and water the young greenery. Meanwhile, the birds and squirrels randomly drop sunflower seeds here there and everywhere, and don’t give a hoot about what happens to said seed – there’s always more back at the feeder.
And so it came to pass that by mid summer, three planters had two sunflowers growing in them and the other two each had one. Even the planter out front sprouted one, and naturally, the sunflowers outgrew all the commercial stuff!
I’m considering not planting anything in the five pots next year. Let’s just see what grows!
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