On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:49:02 -0400, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:

>On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:27:15 -0700 (PDT), Tara Hafiza
> wrote:
>
>>Summer is a terrific time to eat only raw foods, cleanse the body, eat
>>healthy and lose some weight.
>>Don't forget get to eat nuts and seeds with the fresh fruits and
>>vegetables.
>>
>
>>Great time to eat sunflower seeds right from the
>>sunflower, pick one and enjoy the abundance of nature!
>
>Yeah, full of creepy crawlies or were sprayed with poison... some
>years I grow mammoth sunflowers and the bluejays get them all, they
>seem to enjoy the extra protein. Anyone tells me they buy organic
>sunflower seeds I tell them they are full of doodoo. Didja know that
>birds can't eat sunflower seeds while they're growing on the plant...
>they can't get to them., the flowers grow facing the ground... they
>need to wait until the end of the season when the plants fall over.
>Bluejays are the masters of sunflower seed eating.

Squirrels work as a team. One squirrel climbs the stalk to gnaw the
stem just below the flower. When it falls to the ground the other
squirrels gnaw it into pieces and haul the pieces off.
Janet US