Posted on 03/28/2014 12:39:07 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Mammoth grey stripe sunflower have the most potential food. I had a volunteer grow beside my driveway, in a pile of rocks/crappy soil, minimal water. The seed head was 23” across and 99% viable seed.
Problem around here is bird competition.
Good thing about sunflowers, they are very vertical and can be interplanted with other crops. As soon as the soil warms enough for beans, I plant sunflowers. I will plant them every two weeks until August to keep a steady crop.
25# bag of grey stripe sunflower seeds from a feed store (bird food) is probably the cheapest way to get a zillion seeds fast.
too funny
something else for the shopping list: Ronson flints
I looked in your email to me and mine to you looking for the number of sunflower seeds you get from one sunflower. Let me look one more place to see if I can find that.
you need more catz :)
Pansies blooming, daffys too. Sowed seeds of parsley, rosemary, oregano and swiss chard a couple of days ago. Lily shoots poking through the ground. Rained today and more on the way. It never dries out so there may be a permanent lake near the building!
Here is mine. It's basically a block of magnesium (lightweight) with the striker on one side.
They don't come stock with the white mold/salts on them.... that's from age.
The striker is shown with a Leatherman(tm), case, and standard cigarette for scale.
The cigarette is of course, home made.
/johnny
/johnny
Is this the kind of stuff you teach your grandkids? :)
Does it have a gold "$" stamped on it? :)
I simply teach physics. And the Constitution, and how freedom was won and may be maintained.
My daughter has taken to asking for my lesson plans.
What lesson plan?
/johnny
I was wondering the same thing.
Gone Galt.
The local constabulary is familiar with what I grow, since I provide cat-nip for the animal shelter, and give away produce in the summer.
/johnny
I was wondering the same thing.
Gone Galt.
I was wondering the same thing.
Gone Galt.
“I was really warm out there today; we both are exhausted. We just can’t take it anymore.”
I was in bad shape after I transplanted this last bunch of plants outside yesterday. So much sweat had to peel clothes off. Sweat in my eyes and I had to rest before I could even go shower. I was worn out and I also get worn out doing errands and grocery shopping. I need an assistant to do that stuff so I don’t have to.
Awesome.
We are never too young to learn physics.
Job well done, grandpa!
This is not me triple posting. I apologize but the cat keeps walking all over the keyboard.
You sustain my faith in humanity. I expect no less. ;)
/johnny
They can now attract the attention of searchers miles away if they ever get lost in the mountains (we're on a slightly hilly plain). They can also find north, and ruin my hearing by blowing the survival whistle.
All you have to do to find those kids is follow the trail of busted and broken anvils. You'll find the kid with a rubber mallet at the end of it.
/johnny
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