re: Sunflower Seeds

Thanks! I found Chinook seeds at local BR Racetracs. My favorite flavor is parmesan & pepper.

Glad to hear you were inspired. If you're interested in the tall ones, the mammoths and skyscrapers, she said water daily until they reach waist high, then they're mostly fine on their own unless we get no rain for a while.

Regular size ones are easier to grow. We put black oil sunflower seeds in all of our bird feeders and we get lots of volunteers under them. Volunteers are sunflowers that we didn't plant, they just grew after the seeds fell to the ground. We don't water them at all and they grow fine. Just to say the regular size sunflowers are even easier.

I'm pretty sure birds like them. I've seen them out there investigating but hard for me to know because I'm usually taking the dogs out back with me and the birds know it's their back yard.

I got onto Chinook seeds a year or two ago from a friend's suggestion. The seeds are comparable in size to Bigs or David Jumbo (the other two brands I used to eat) but have a fraction of the salt. 1.5oz (the small pack at 28g) has 4% of the recommended sodium. Bigs Original has 90% in a 30g serving. Big difference.

The small bag of Chinook at 1.5oz has 160 calories and makes a great snack to me. It's roughly the same calories as a small bag of chips...the kind of chips that come when you buy an 18 pack of mixed flavors. But I eat the chips in about 2 minutes while the sunflower seeds may last a half hour for the same calories. I often eat the big 4oz bag on a Friday or Saturday night watching movies and taking edibles. The grand total is only 10% of my daily sodium and 400 total calories that takes a couple hours to get through. Much better and healthier alternative to eating a pint of ice cream, bag of chips or most other things I would snack on when I get the munchies.