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There are many products that come directly from sunflowers.
Some of these include:
- Raw or roasted sunflower whole seed as a snack food with or without seasoning
- Butter - similar to peanut butter, it is called sunflower butter
- German sunflower whole seed breaed
- Bird food - either alone or in combination with other seeds
- Shelled seeds can be used in salads.
- Sunflower oil is used in cooking, margrine, biodiesel and other products
- Native American uses: bread, medical ointments, dyes, body paint
- "Cake" left over from oil processing is fed to livestock
- Ornamental plants for home gardens use also to attract seed-loving birds
- Sunflowers produce latex - may be used to produce nonallergic rubber (gloves)
- They have been used in phytoermediation to extract harmful items from soil
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Can you grow a sunflower with sunflower seeds?
If the sunflowers are not a hybrid variety, then you can save the seed by cutting the flowers when the seeds are fully formed and loose in the head, drying the whole head for two or so weeks, rubbing them from the head, drying for a further couple of weeks, and replanting in the spring. you can use hybrid varieties as long as long as they are not sterile in which case you wont get any seeds anyway. you just wont get the same flower vigor and or good looks. zaf.
How long do sunflower grow?
Mine were planted in April and were done by August. I live in Florida and some non-native parrots made short work of them when the seeds got ripe.
How do you make salted roasted sunflower seeds?
Heat raw sunflower seeds in a non stick skillet on medium high heat. Be very careful as they will roast quickly once they start. Spray lightly with vegetable oil like Pam and add sea salt while hot Pour these hot seeds out on a cookie sheet to cool, do not try to cool in the hot pan as they will burn as the sunflower oil is released by the heat.
How long does it take for a mahogany tree to grow?
Seed pods from mahogany trees should be harvested once they turn brown, harden, and crack. Harvested seeds should only be taken while still on the trees, not from the ground.
What is the manufacturing process of sunflower oil?
Large black sunflower seeds are the ones filled with the greatest quantities of sunflower oil - these oilseed varieties can be approximately 40 - 50% oil by weight. Producers generally press not only the seeds but the entire head of the sunflower so they make sure they will obtain the highest oil yield. Once the sunflower oil is extracted, it is sent for further refining and filtering. Modern oil extraction techniques create a byproduct called pressed sunflower seed cake or meal, which is high in protein and can be for livestock feed.
How do you tell what level crops are in HM cute?
You can't tell until you have Harvested your crop. Although the more seeds you make the more of a chance you get a higher level crop. I used 99 seeds on turnips once and only got level 6 Turnips :P
Will geese eat sunflower seed?
Swallows (family Hirundinidae - aerial feeders) are primarily insect eaters. They enjoy all kinds of insects except for the stinging types (wasps, bees). They do like a bit of fruit and other plant matter once in a while. There have been no reports of them partaking of sunflower seeds. The birds that LOVE sunflower seeds include the Tufted Titmouse, Goldfinch, Purple Finch, Chickadee, Nuthatches and other seed-eating birds.
How are poppy plant harvested?
using the pods after the flower pedals fall .they first are sliced very shallow several times till opium leaks out then they use a spoon to collect it.. then...once youve done alll that you can just cut them about 6 inches from the base of the plant leave to dry and cut the pod in half and harvest the seeds from the inside.
What happens to a sunflower when all of its petals come off?
To attracted insects to pollinate them so that seeds will develope.
What does farmer do with the harvested wheat?
Today the majority of farmers, at least those in North America, sell their wheat once it's harvested.
When do you deseed a sunflower?
once the petals have pretty much fallen off, cut the flower off, leave it upside down on a tray or something. after a while the seeds will drop out by themselves and the tray will catch them :-)
In Sims Castaway for ds how do you get the lime from MsWeeder?
you need to offer help to her several times (take care of the banana tree, have the medicine lady concoct a green potion to remove the pests from her plants, etc.). once you have fulfilled her requests and maintain a good relationship with her, you can then trade seeds with her. you can trade for some lime seeds. plant lime seeds on the earth mound & once you have harvested some lime from the tree, you can then give the lime to the chef. hope that helps.
