Sunflower Feeders

A successful season of growing these giants is way over.

The stalks are gone from the beds and are now bulking up the burn pile. 

My favorite super hero, Garden Guy*, composted and, AND! put the flower beds to 

sleep under a thick layer of leaf mulch. Ahhhh!  I love you Garden Guy!

*Formerly known in an earlier career as Diaper Man, this superhero visited our home

 every weekend and took on the nighttime diaper 'dooties' so I could get some sleep.  

The work of a superhero is never, ever done!

I harvested* the heads, and they relaxed on the picnic table for a few days, then 

went on to dry in the greenhouse.  It didn't take long for the tufted titmice to find them - 

those birds must buckle on their smartie pants every day.

* Flower gardeners like me take any opportunity to use the word harvest to get a 

temporary leg-up to the Vegetable Gardener League. 

So I moved them out for all the fall birds.  

A super cheap and all-natural birdfeeder, the thick stalk makes it easy to ram it between 

tree branches or in metal plant hanging hardware (below).

You could lay one right outside on a window ledge for a front-row, birdwatching seat.

Sparrows can't seem to hog a hanging seed head for their tribe - big bonus!