These sunflower Heads are great for eating or you can harvest the seeds and roast them or make your own sunflower oil! The price is per head for these Peredovik, high-oil-content heads. Check out our blog from June 2022 to see the sunflower field and check out this video on different ways to prepare and eat sunflowers in ways you may not have ever hear of.
Our bees have been foraging these sunflowers pretty hard all Spring and well into summer and we have been feeding the native pollinators and beneficial wasps as well. Yes, I said BENEFICIAL WASPS. I think I will do a blog post on this topic later, but suffice it to say, I like having them around despite their aggressive reputation.
If you’ve never eaten sunflower heads, you are in for a treat! And we have SO many that we are actually selling them on our website because it would totally overwhelm the Red Hill Online Market and take up valuable space from other growers. Just note that these are for PICKUP ONLY and like the sunflower bunches were sold, You can pick them up from one of us in downtown Talahassee. If you live out of town and want some, send me a message and we can work something out.
Here is some more information from the website gardeningknowhow.com:
Black Peredovik Sunflowers
Usually, sunflower seed is a mixture of colors, and some are striped. The black sunflower seeds hold the most oil and the Russian cultivar, the Black Peredovik sunflower, are oilseed sunflowers used the most. It was bred as a sunflower oil production crop. The Black Peredovik sunflower seeds are medium-sized and deep black. This black oil sunflower seed has more meat than a regular sunflower seed and the outer husk is softer so even smaller birds can crack into the seed. It is rated the number one food for wild birds by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The high oil content in Black Peredovik sunflower seeds is important to birds in winter as they will spread the oil on their feathers, increasing buoyancy and keeping them dry and warm.
Read more at Gardening Know How: Learn About Black Oil Sunflowers And Black Sunflower Seeds https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/sunflower/black-oil-sunflower-seeds.htm