i burn alot of wood for ther camp oven and to clean up the scrub. and it has always fasinated me why the soild turns to a black or red crumble when you uncover the soil fro the ashes. i use the ashes in the garden and picket up two wheel barrow fullls. :idunno
teh amount of waste a supermarket will produce i rekon could prob end peverty world wide. the council should be composting it themselves so they dont tax the resident for fertilizer for the gradens etc. they have got the chippers etc but probroblary coulnd be stuffed. they wouldnt have to...
majority were hard and ther were plenty off bees around. once a whole hive had moved itself and whilst it was moving and re making a new hive they were sticking around the sunflower. i sowed a whole row but only one came up as i had very little time to water them.. to busy harvestoing at that...
the internet tells me to harvest sunflowers when the seed has a white line on it and the backs are brown.
well the backs are brown but no white stripe and the seed easily fall out
i might just but a breathable bag over the head of the flower