October 3rd, 2007 - Sharing sunflowers
I forgot about something else I did this weekend: I gave away most of my sunflower seeds!
To mice!
I went to get something from the back garage and realized that instead of a few loose seeds around one or two of the drying heads, all of them had piles of shells around them. When I’d noticed this a couple weeks ago, I thought I’d knocked some seeds out of a head–no big deal. But now, I’d lost over half my harvest to mice. At least, I’m guessing mice. Didn’t see them in action so have no idea.
At least they left the strawberry corn alone.
I finished the job of removing the seeds. It looks like they probably got the majority of the good seeds. There were lots of seeds that felt thin and are probably just shells. I have no idea how I will dry them in the future. Nor what I will do about drying my beans. That worked well last year back there, but I’m afraid they will eat up my dried beans now. And I have such lovely large screens this year! (Formerly the front porch windows, which are nearly 6′ square.)