You know that saying "all good things come to an end" and it's true. We're close to harvesting everything that's left now and I can't say I'll miss this gardening season because it was pretty rough! Summer has been hard on everyone. My poor duckies had to be moved into the chicken coop because it's …
As you know, I love, love, LOVE my sunflowers and the sunflower mix I planted this year definitely didn't disappoint! In fact, they exceeded my expectations and I can't wait to save some of the seeds for next year. I've been fascinated by their beautiful colors and also how much the bees love them. Sunflowers …
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. Helen Keller The more I grow them, the more sunflowers have become my favorites in the garden. There's just something so homey (or homesteady?) about them. You rarely see paintings or pictures of farms without at least one or …
My stubbornness knows no bounds it seems, and it was particularly kicked into high gear this morning as I set out to do what I wanted to do yesterday. Which, if you remember, was to simply pick some of my lovely sunflowers to get some seeds and also a few to put in a vase …
I set out this morning with a lofty goal in mind and that was to collect some sunflowers to dry out for fall decorating and also harvest some of the giant sunflower seeds. It's definitely time as I can see the seeds beneath the tiny blossoms in the center of the heads and I'd like …
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