Posted on 03/14/2010 6:00:25 PM PDT by Cindy
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How to Grow Your Own Bird Seed in the Garden
Member By Gardengates, eHow Member
SNIPPET: "How to grow your own bird seed in the garden
Watching wild birds is fascinating and delightful. People fill bird feeders in the garden to bring these colorful feathered friends into view. But you can attract your own birds by growing colorful flowers in your garden that will produce their favorite seeds. Here are some ideas on how to grow your own bird seed in the garden."
Difficulty: Easy
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Lots of American Goldfinch here...thistle seed isn’t cheap but that’s all the little buggers seem to want to eat(other than sunflower seeds...when nothing else is available).
“Difficulty: Easy”
Unless you have deer running the neighborhood...
;-)
Goldfinch are cute.
I understand about dear, but then we have foxes, coyotes, and larger wild animals, so deer just kind of do their business and walk off the property eventually.
A deer was watching me start my garden yesterday. I threw a rock at it. It just watched the rock land at its feet. It didn’t flinch.
Identify the birds in your area.
BIRD GUIDES Online
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=1
By, Golly! Everything they’re telling you to grow for wildlife is already a NATIVE...that would still be here in abundance if it weren’t for McMansions and societal progress!
Go figger. :)
With no natural predators in the neighborhood, I’m going to string an electric fence this year. It may deter the deer and should stop the two-legged cucumber thieves......
Yep, I was just remarking to my husband this afternoon that there seem to two classes of birds: polite eaters and messy eaters.
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We had an electric fence and additional posts and wire fencing on our old farm in California for the front pasture to keep the cows in. It worked well.
I generally have a nice plot of sunflowers in my garden...we compete (a losing battle :)) with the birds for the seeds...I always plant more than what we need of the popular plants, like sunflowers and corn...raccoons have to eat to you know...
I generally have a nice plot of sunflowers in my garden...we compete (a losing battle :)) with the birds for the seeds...I always plant more than what we need of the popular plants, like sunflowers and corn...raccoons have to eat also you know...
Then eat the fat birds.
Just kidding folks. I am a real animal lover. There was a big overweight pesky housefly buzzing around this a.m. I left the windows open so it could fly away...which it did.
I am not an Obama.
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Yes, in all my gardens I think the same thing, at least 1/3 of the planting go to wildlife; the rest to us.
The only way to keep critters out would be large greenhouses — and that’s not an option.
Laughing...
The quail and pheasant here look good especially around Thanksgiving.
Good thing we eat turkey.
I plant several varites of sunflower every year. I also throw a few milo seeds into pots. Birds love to sit on the stems and eat the seeds.
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