ambersand

Sunflowers are neat. When mature, you can eat the seeds or leave them on the flower for the birds. They are useful plants too, as every part is harvested for use. We just got a book from the library, "This is the sunflower" by Lola M. Schaefer. It's probably ment for 2-7 yo, but I learned something!! Besides, I can learn form picture books.

ambersand

Nancy from MI

--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "ambersand" <ambersand@m...> wrote:
> Sunflowers are neat. When mature, you can eat the seeds or leave
them on the flower for the birds. They are useful plants too, as
every part is harvested for use.

I've had sunflowers in the past and had a real problem with squirrels
attacking them. Any advice on how to keep them away so we can enjoy
the sunflowers?

~Nancy

Juli

I have sunflowers and I have squirrels in my yard, and
they never bother my sunflowers. Maybe that's because
I put peanuts out for the squirrels and they prefer
those? Not sure. Juli

--- Nancy from MI <hammondcentral@...>
wrote:
> --- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "ambersand"
> <ambersand@m...> wrote:
> > Sunflowers are neat. When mature, you can eat the
> seeds or leave
> them on the flower for the birds. They are useful
> plants too, as
> every part is harvested for use.
>
> I've had sunflowers in the past and had a real
> problem with squirrels
> attacking them. Any advice on how to keep them away
> so we can enjoy
> the sunflowers?
>
> ~Nancy
>
>


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We've planted sunflowers in the past with my now 5yo. I'm allergic to bee
stings and they seem to really attract bees to our yard. Just a word of
caution. The last year that we planted them my daughter bordered our veggie
garden and we had a hard time getting to some of our veggies due to the
bees.

Laura


>From: "Nancy from MI" <hammondcentral@...>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: Gardening for kids?/sunflowers and
>squirrels
>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:23:56 -0000
>
>--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "ambersand" <ambersand@m...> wrote:
> > Sunflowers are neat. When mature, you can eat the seeds or leave
>them on the flower for the birds. They are useful plants too, as
>every part is harvested for use.
>
>I've had sunflowers in the past and had a real problem with squirrels
>attacking them. Any advice on how to keep them away so we can enjoy
>the sunflowers?
>
>~Nancy
>

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Kim

Put a paper bag over them when the head starts to mature, they are protected from the beasts and they drop into the bag, handy for harvesting!
Kim


From: "Nancy from MI" <hammondcentral@...>
Subject: Re: Gardening for kids?/sunflowers and squirrels

--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "ambersand" <ambersand@m...> wrote:
> Sunflowers are neat. When mature, you can eat the seeds or leave
them on the flower for the birds. They are useful plants too, as
every part is harvested for use.

I've had sunflowers in the past and had a real problem with squirrels
attacking them. Any advice on how to keep them away so we can enjoy
the sunflowers?

~Nancy


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*** Put a paper bag over them when the head starts to mature, they are
protected from the beasts and they drop into the bag, handy for harvesting!
Kim ***

That works with nice civilized squirrels who wait for the heads to start
maturing. I don't know about Nancy's sunflowers, but ours were beheaded
before the flowers had even reached the pollination stage. Very depressing to
wake up in the morning to a neat row of headless stalks.

Ah well.

Deborah

Kim

OH, vicious little dickens aren't they?! I wonder if netting would work? I put netting on all of our fruit trees when they look to be about ripe. I don't know, I haven't had that much of a problem with my sunflowers. Now the bird feeder, that's another story!!! I wonder if you could put a smooth pipe up the stalk, like PVC or something, that's what we do with our young trees. Or, you could try feeding them something else like someone mentioned.
Kim


From: DACunefare@...
Subject: Re: Gardening for kids?/sunflowers and squirrels

*** Put a paper bag over them when the head starts to mature, they are
protected from the beasts and they drop into the bag, handy for harvesting!
Kim ***

That works with nice civilized squirrels who wait for the heads to start
maturing. I don't know about Nancy's sunflowers, but ours were beheaded
before the flowers had even reached the pollination stage. Very depressing to
wake up in the morning to a neat row of headless stalks.

Ah well.

Deborah



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