Thank you for this video! I did not know that about sunflowers 🌻❤️❤️ I previously saw a video from Emmymade called How to ears sunflower head” date August 23, 2020. It looks yummy!!!!

@City Prepping Greetings from North Sweden (not far from the Arctic circle) If may I give a advice that I use when I make “flour surrogates” from various various vegetables and herbs. If the flour you create has very little sugar (monosaccharides or other easy accessible types of sugars) you can add sugar in any way you can, I’ve tried; (dried) carrot, honey, dried powdered fruits, etc. yeast (or better yet wild yeast) all need sugar to expand and make lofty bread. Question About sunflowers: Does the giant ones endure all climates. (If I may point out that it be wise to always consider more than one sort and more then one way to get ahold of something that’s necessary. Fact: The major X factor is weather, climate, and growth season. Cold, moist, short …all are variables.(not to mention other humans, animals etc who can take what you have grown.. Are all sunflowers edible? Are they all useful/ worth wile? Question: Have you experimented with wild yeast? Suggestion: You should. Fact: You will sooner or later run out of baking soda and pre-bought stuff when in a real sharp situation. Question: IF you know of any way to create baking soda I’d love to hear it. Fact: In a dire situation steelwork is a awesome fire starter, easy lit, burns hot, and long. REQUEST: What would be VERY good to know is how to get salt if you live where there is only sweet water (far from any ocean) salt is necessary. Best wishes Lil

Very interesting 🌻🌻🌻

@@liliyakamala2348 some great questions about baking soda and salt. Where do you get wild yeast?

can't wait to try all these things with sunflowers!

does it matter if fresh or dried - for tea ?

The petals start to fall before the head is finished drying the seed completely. I'd think you could make tea with fresh and dried petals. Once dried it wouldn't take as much though. Similar to herbs.

Wow. Never knew it. Jewelry also. Resin.

I swear I never knew you could do all of that with the sunflower I've heard of the sunflower oil but not all the other that's crazy

And they help propagate corn.

@@demsakawalkinglatetermabor7ion How do they do that?

They give shadow to lettuces, peas and strawberries.

I used fox farm bud & bloom with fox farm soil & other amendments my tallest sunflower was literally 15ft tall but unfortunately I got my seeds at Walmart they did not produce seeds due to the various types of sunflower that I found in the garden area I think next year I’m going to experiment with Mammoth sunflowers but put them in a greenhouse setting to regulate the temperature I live in southern Oregon it was 113 degrees 7-20-22 it wrecked my plants had too cut two of them down

Just curious, why do you grow that many? There's a field near my house with thousands. It's a beautiful sight! I'd love to grow a lot in my yard but we live in a very woody area. So not much sunlight. They let the sunflowers in the field dry up.

@Hickory Root Farmstead, How do you use the stalk for the bees, flies and Goldfinch?

@@heartofdixieprepping4797 the heads have to dry up before harvesting for seeds. Maybe they're just removing any pesticides or herbicides in the soil? Both maybe.

@@justpatty7328 ok thanks. I sure wished they had grown. They were breathtaking last year.

Should start a be hive.. Then you'll have your own honey..

Dandelions are also very easy to Identify so that's somewhere to start

Check out cooking with Claira depression cooking she shares about eating dandelions. Lovely lady

Check out Sergei Boutenko's channel on KZfaq... he also has a book about "wild edibles" . You would be surprised at how many of those "weeds" that are in your yard are good to eat and also to use as medication.

You should totally check out this book. Bought it on Amazon in paperback. The Forager's Guide to Wild Edibles by Nicole Apelian, Ph.D. Great color pics, states plants can be found wild. How and what to harvest, prepare, recipes and poisonous look alikes.

Definitely get a wild edibles of the region u live in,this is what i did,i now have a small collection of diy and how to books on different subjects an bushcraft

Got that right. Natures down pillow with those fluffy seeds, or firestarter, cattail pasta, etc.

Iirc you need to be cautious about where you harvest them from as they filter out toxins in the water. So if you're getting them from a dirty creek on the side of the road you're risking consuming whatever nasties are in the water through the plant. I don't remember the specifics, which means I'm off to Google it, lol. But I think you can still eat them, you just have to forego the part of the plant that does all the filtering.

@@grinningneko5480 This is true of most plants. But you are correct! We never harvest wild plants growing along a road, too! Only from good, known sources! Thanks for the tip!

Also beware of areas where chemicals may be sprayed by gardeners and landscapers.

That slime in the leaves is also an excellent topical painkiller.

Sounds good 👍

Do you sprout them like any other seed?

What about Rosselle?

Oh thanks. I just got a bean screen

Kale and Broccoli micro greens as well. You can get these in bulk bags on Amazon for a great price.

my beans are currently enjoying twisting around my sunflowers as stakes too

my favorite flower more useful than i thought

The younger leaves are edible as a green, too.

My chickens love the wild sunflower seeds that pop up in my yard

Here in Australia, I use sunflowers as a shade for lettuce, spinach in summer as the midday sun can cook anything

Another great idea for sunflowers is using them to grow peas on! The indigenous of north America would grow corn or sunflowers as the lattice for peas or beans, and then plant squash at the bottom as their sharp leaves would deter animals from chowing down! It's called the three sisters!

@@lisajohn7141 here in canada, I feed my sunflowers to my meat rabbits. They eat everything

Think it depends on where you are. Here in Texas I get 12-16 foot sunflowers, and these are not the mammoth varieties. I usually get 3 harvests in my area but the plants get successively smaller over the season as we move through hotter and dryer times. Getting seeds is not a problem. Getting seeds without bugs can be. Harvest the flower heads as soon as the seeds are well formed. Dry indoors away from moths, flys, and beetles. If you are going to use for replanting spray the flower heads prior to drying with insecticide. Raid home and garden does well. Spray the seeds and the back of the flower. Harvest the seeds when thoroughly dried. Discard heads with insect activity. Collect the seeds from the rest. Spray the inside of a jar with insecticide fill with seeds, spray again and seal with a tight fitting lid and use oxygen absorbers. For food use DO NOT USE insecticide. Dry, toss anything showing insect activity, collect and clean the seeds. Then sterilize your seeds in an oven on low heat, this kills the insects , but also the seed. No good for planting. Shell and freeze.

We get lots of seeds in many parts of the US so maybe it is your area not getting enough sun.

Yes coconuts and coconut oil is brilliant for you (so long as its not been pasteurised or otherwise meddled with ... )

this is the reason i only use coconut husk for my gardening mulch.

Yes. You can get pretty much everything from it.

Where did u get the seeds?

Stay prepped and safe

@@kylahh4903 online, Amazon I think.

@@kylahh4903 One place to order them is the ECHO Global Farms website.

The last scientific researches on moringa say it's rather the contrary of a miracle (at least for the leaves that are rather poisonous, the results didn't say about the seeds.)

I grew sunflowers this year for the first time and they were always COVERED in dozens of bees. I would harvest other garden goodies all around them and the bees left me completely alone.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great idea!!

Additionally, you can grow THREE crops in one mound. You grow the sunflower, then the peas but my addition is to add in a squash plant to crowd out the weeds. It's called the 3 Sisters and was used by natives for thousands of years.

Four Sisters garden always include corn squash beans that climb the sunflowers

Which is also why I'm not a fan of the gluten free bread I'm supposed to be eating.

Thank you for the bread tips

@@winchucky You're most welcome. Cheers!

@@jerilee76 I wonder if it is really gluten that people react to when it could be the Glyphosate instead.

I've seen a Townsend video of rice bread. Maybe the technique can be applied to other ingredients?

There are many online websites for this

Did you know all grass is edible? Just have to find out what tastes good.

I got an app in my phone and a book. When learning I tried to identify plants when out walking with the book and then took a photo of them with phone to confirm with app.

What are the books you have? I love expanding my library

Glad you liked it!

@sprock I've actually used double acting with coconut flour and a bit of milk and got a pretty decent rise out of it.

What he said!

It doesn't have to be sugar. It could be honey or molasses or sorghum - just something to feed the yeast.

Yeast and sugar dough should not be baked before 24 hours because it binds up the zinc if basked fresh, not good for males especially Vegetable oils are processed with HEXAINE which is poisonous.

Sugar is used by factories to rise the bread quickly. Not good. Speed is money for them.

Glad you enjoyed it!

I've been doing three sisters via trial and error for the past few years. Year one we used sunflowers instead of corn (sunflower is sometimes used as a 4th sister), but this year we did actual corn. The ears aren't ready yet, and the beans have outgrown some of the corn stalks, and we made the mounds too small which shaded out the squash too much. Next year will be better, but at least we're learning.

I found that picking the beans was very hard to do in my small garden, without harming the corn. Guess I should have gave the rows more room between them.

@@susanthomas9330 the thing I discovered in my research was that traditionally they did shelling beans, not green beans, so I am trying that this year. Not having to worry about regular picking is nice.

@@corinneqofhearts5069 , Very useful information. How far apart did you space each sister's sections?

@@justpatty7328 The first year we just did a row of sunflowers and planted beans at their bases. This year we did (10) 18" mounds, about 24" apart, staggered in two rows. It ia a bit cozy, and we couldn't get as many beans as we wanted in the mounds. Unfortunately because we planted the squash late they didn't manage to produce. We're expanding for next year and giving squash their own mounds instead of interplanting them on the corn mounds.

I’ve gone 50/50 on both and have had great results

yacon's so easy to grow isn't it! It keeps taking over my garden! Gotta say though, yield wise it disappoints me when compared to my sweet potatoes. My yacon creates a LOT of above ground foliage (which I've been told is edible, but I havent' tried) but just not a lot of tubers compared to the sweet potatoes it's sharing the garden with, so this year I've switched to mainly just the sweet potatoes cause of the better yield. Yacon's been relegated to my back garden with less sun, will see if it can handle growing there, if it can, it can stay :)

Great idea!

And what happens to the radiation once absorbed? Does it break down faster or does it just move into the sunflower plant itself?

@@YoooItsRex I have no idea for radiation, but for chemical remediation, crops like sunflowers are grown, harvested & disposed of, taking the chemicals that were in the soil with them to the disposal site & over time leaving the soil clean & non-toxic

My granddaughter has a sunflower plant growing around the vegetable, fruit and herb garden.

Glad it was helpful. Since this video I've found even more uses. We should probably do another video. :) I'm growing jerusalem artichokes and black seed sunflowers this year. The mammoth variety was fun, though.

You are so welcome!

You are so welcome!