Saturday, September 28, 2013

garden pictures

white bunching onions and 'candy' sweet onions
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black eyed peas, still drying in their pods
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ground cherries
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sunflowers a month ago. i pulled this head off and brought it inside to dry and save the seeds.
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this is what the 1st head looked like
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i left this 2nd head out in the garden. i didnt know if the birds would come back and eat them all or not. these are pretty much the only seeds left of all the sunflowers i planted.
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this is what most of the sunflowers looked like a month ago
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i tied the 1st head to some wire shelving in my porch to dry out
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what the head looked like with all the little flower buds brushed off the seeds
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what the head looks like now, after a month of drying
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i left the stalk in the garden of the sunflower i pulled the head off of. it decided to sprout tiny little new flower heads further down the stalk.
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the 2nd sunflower head, left a month longer in the garden. the birds actually left it alone. i cut the head and strung it up inside next to the drying 1st head this week.
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