On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:19:42 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

>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

I've never seen squirrels on my sunflowers let alone gnawing the stems
that are more like tree trunks.