Phoebe & Sunflowers

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Was a bit more subdued of a Saturday than most of mine had been.  I made a run out to a friend’s orchard with Phoebe to talk about things and see how all was going for them after losing 80% of their crop to a late freeze and then hail.    They are getting along which was good to see.  Then Phoebe and I tripped over to the Adickes farm to harvest the earliest maturing Arikara Sunflowers for seed saving.img_8768

20 heads we chose.  There will be a lot more, but these were the largest and earliest ones.  I love the variability of this variety.

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We eat them  out of hand, or soak in salt water, and then roast in the oven.  Some of the heads we put up in the winter for the birds.  <laughing> After we go to such great lengths to keep the birds off of them in the summer.

The select heads are in a protected greenhouse to finish drying, and we will seed them later, and pack the selected seed away for another year.

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