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Save your sunflower heads. Yes, the
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sunflowers are starting to die off now
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down here at the a lotment. And it's key
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that you need to save the sunflower
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heads. Now, why should we save them?
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Because you can dry them out. You can
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save the seeds for next year and plant
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them next year. Save you a lot of money.
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Or you can save them for the birds to
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feed the birds if you enjoy feeding the
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Or you can actually roast them and eat
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them. I've never tried it myself eating
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them. Let me know in the comments what
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it tastes like, if they're nice or not,
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and we might try roasting some, seeing
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what they like. So, yeah, let's harvest
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our sunflower heads and hang them up to
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So, as you can see, we've got a nice big
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sunflower head there. The petals have
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died off now, and yeah, it's time to
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harvest it. So, we need to chop the head
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So, as you can see, we've got a nice big
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sunflower head here. And yeah, look at
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all them seeds underneath it. Absolutely
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hundreds on this one. All you have to do
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is scrape these off and the seeds are
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underneath it like that. So, yeah, we're
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going to take all this off and then
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we're going to leave them to hang up and
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dry. You can actually leave them on and
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they'll just drop off as they're drying
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out, but you need to hang them up
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because if you lay them down somewhere,
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the rats will find them and devour them
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as they absolutely all love the
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sunflower heads and the seeds to eat.
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And also, obviously, the birds like
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them. So, if you're wanting to save them
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for roasting, make sure you save them
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somewhere special so that they don't get
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to them. So, there we are. We've taken
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most of the bits off it. So yeah, I
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wonder how many seeds there are actually
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in this. There's absolutely hundreds. So
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yeah, we could have some giant ones next
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year if we save them for sewing
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ourselves or if we decide to eat them.
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We might try roasting them, seeing what
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they're like. But yeah, let's get this
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hung up and left to dry. There we are,
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hung up in our poly tunnel to dry out.
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Should only take about a month or so for
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them to fully dry out and then they'll
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be ready to eat or do what you want with
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them. So, I hope you've enjoyed that
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video. Make sure you drop us a follow to
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stay up to date with all our antics down
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at the a lotment. Until next time
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everyone, remember, keep smiling, keep
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shining, and keep gardening with Ben
