Don't waste the ones with high oil content. Harvest the oil too! That's two markets with one crop. Brilliant tutorial! Thank you for sharing your insight and teaching others how to manage this neat task. I bet it helps to relieve stress too? Who else thinks it's fun to beat the seeds out of the sunflower? Don't forget the gloves!
I just shred them up in a wood chipper and use them as mulch. I guess you could also use them to build a Swiss Family Robinson home and boat and boardwalks too if you wanted. :)
You need to sort the seeds according to size first. Once you have a bunch of near identically sized seeds, you can feed them through grinder on a very loose setting where it just cracks the seeds open. I tried doing this with a wheat grinder once and then winnow the seeds after that and got an OK yield of shelled seeds.
Try setting out a bird feeder just far away enough from the plants that it will distract them. My Granny kept hers at the opposite end of the yard to keep them out of her gardens.
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Don't waste the ones with high oil content. Harvest the oil too! That's two markets with one crop. Brilliant tutorial! Thank you for sharing your insight and teaching others how to manage this neat task. I bet it helps to relieve stress too? Who else thinks it's fun to beat the seeds out of the sunflower? Don't forget the gloves!
Thanks so much for this! I spent an hour today getting seeds from the sunflowers 🌻 for the ducks for winter!! Lovely thanks!
Gonna use this method next year. I used my thumb and got a bunch of stuff under the seeds so it made it tougher to sort that out lol.
Don't know where you went. Hope you continue to make videos. Excellent content and quality
Thanks. I’m on TikTok now. But I’ll get back on TH-cam one of these days.
You aren’t loveless. We love you
Ha ha. thanks. :)
So much easier! Thank you!
Thank you
Thanks so much I just got sunflower seeds to plant and I was wondering how you got the seeds out of them
This is amazing! Kudos
Thanks.
How do you dispose of the stalks? Thanks
I just shred them up in a wood chipper and use them as mulch. I guess you could also use them to build a Swiss Family Robinson home and boat and boardwalks too if you wanted. :)
Thanks
Is there a way to shell the seeds, or can that only be don commercially?
You need to sort the seeds according to size first. Once you have a bunch of near identically sized seeds, you can feed them through grinder on a very loose setting where it just cracks the seeds open. I tried doing this with a wheat grinder once and then winnow the seeds after that and got an OK yield of shelled seeds.
So the birds get to mine early and I never get a full head. I have to cut them down before they are mature enough
Try setting out a bird feeder just far away enough from the plants that it will distract them. My Granny kept hers at the opposite end of the yard to keep them out of her gardens.
John how do you keep the birds away from the seeds?
The birds get a few. But I usually cut them (the sunflowers) before they get too many.
2 minutes in is where it gets juicy
on i am sorry i do not have time for that today