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Save those sunflower seeds for next year. Welcome to Gardening with Ben. In today's
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episode we're going to be saving all our sunflower seeds. You can either save them for next year
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for growing, you could save them for the birds, you could even eat them, save them for roasting
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So we're going to chop off all our sunflower heads today and dry them out ready to save
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So let's get snipping and let's get saving. So as you can see some of our sunflower heads
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have fallen over, some are dying and so we're going to save our seed heads ready for next
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year. So what we need to do is we need to chop off the heads that are dying and get
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them dried out ready for saving. Now look at the size of that head, like my hands are
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big and look at the size of it, wow! There's going to be absolutely hundreds of seeds in
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there for us to save. So all we do is leave some stalk on so that we can hang them up
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So yeah we've got the heads off, so let's get them drying out. So we've now put these
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up to hang in the polytunnel and these will all dry out and all the little flower bits
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will drop off and it'll leave all the seeds in it. These shouldn't take long to dry out
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should be pretty fast in this polytunnel as it is nice and warm in here. So we'll come
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back and we'll see what they look like in a bit. Now one important thing to do is not
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throw away the canes of the sunflowers. You can save these and they'll store and be rock
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hard and you can use them for growing runner beans up next year or using them for a framework
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So yeah, save them and save yourself money. So that has been our tip for today on saving
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sunflower seeds, whether it's for eating, whether it's for the birds or whether it's
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for growing next year. So I hope you've enjoyed this tip, do give it a like, give it a comment
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and feel free to share it as well. Until next time remember, keep smiling, keep shining
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and keep gardening with Ben Edwards
