Re: Black Oil Sunflower Seed for Sprouting

[Guest guest]

Talk to Melody and .  They say that you don't know what is put on them as

they are not planned for human consumption.  Wonder if you got them at an

organic market if it would make any difference.  I read once that people who do

feed birds should put cayenne on the seeds as it doesn't bother the birds but

keeps the squirrels from eating the seeds.  Funny thing was i got a squirrel

feeder and put in peanuts and the birds liked that and the squirrels went to the

bird feeders.  Both liked the corn I put out which was supposed to be for

squirrels.  It was blue jays I really enjoyed watching with the peanuts.  They

would break them open and eat them.  They loved the peanuts.  We got raw of

course, in the shell.  If my husband wasn't out there first thing in the

morning to feed them, they sure yelled at him when he did come out.   We don't

get many exciting birds at our place in Florida.  We have the occasional ibises

that come down to the

ground to feed, but our most common birds are crows and morning doves.  The

doves are one of my husband's favorite but we don't have many trees for them to

hide in.  They like the pines.  We can't afford to feed birds like we used to

as it cost us about $50-100  a month in seed.  I enjoyed the gold finches. 

They also stayed year round like the cardinals.  Never saw a bluebird there. 

had a lot of nut hatches and woodpeckers which we loved to watch.  We miss them

here.  But we do go to the swamp lands and see all kinds of birds in a wild

preserve like cranes and an Eagle and a variety including a roseated spoonbill

(our favorite). Then there are the gators and the turtles too.  It is a nice

walk of a mile or two though we may have to take a walker or a scooter

anymore.  path is all boardwalk.  We take visitors there and it is free. 

There are 3 or 4 of the preserves in Palm Beach County.

 

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 1:56 PM

Subject: Black Oil Sunflower Seed for Sprouting

 

Hi all... I've done a search through the forum here and couldn't find this topic

addressed...

I've been reading that a lot of people like sprouted sunflower seeds. I've never

tried them. I was in my local supermarket the other day and saw that they had

10lb bags of Black Oil Sunflower seeds for birds for sale for around $5. It made

me wonder if we could use these for sprouting.

Would this seed be OK to sprout? I would suspect that if it was for birds, that

there wouldn't be anything wrong with sprouting them for ourselves.

Has anyone sprouted these or does anyone know if these can be sprouted and eaten

without us humans growing feathers?.. )

Just curious...

Dennis

[Guest guest]

EW, the article said they did, so the article may have been wrong.

Gives me something to research.

Holly