Jenna was home for a day from her summer camp. While she was here, I thought we should start harvesting the sunflowers. Most of the Mammoth variety are still not quite there yet, although we did harvest one head. The Lemon variety were much more ready. In fact, the birds had already done a decent job on a number of the flowers. Still, we harvested more than a dozen flowers that seemed to have a number of seeds still in them. The Lemon variety have multiple flowers per plant. The Mammoth have only one, but it is much larger. The photo is of Lemon variety flowers.
The plan is to follow what has been published. The flowers now sit in a paper bag, waiting for them to dry.
One thing I have noticed is that the seeds all seem to hold to either the confectioner shades of gray and white or the oil producing shades of black, like the one in the lower right of the photo. In theory, all of the seeds planted this year were confectioner. My reading suggests that we may actually have a mixture of oil bearing and confectioner types.
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