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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 05:18:40 AM
well chilluns' .. my BIG sunflowers are about ready for harvesting .. and there should be lotsa' seeds available. sooooo .. if you send me a SMALL padded Self-Addessed, Stamped-Envelope .. i'll tuck a tiny packet ("did-up" in those little fabric bags that i mention in my Autumn Crafts posting) and send them along to you. the little bags are only about one-inch by two inches ... so maybe even CUT a padded envelope in half if you can't find small-ish ones ... i can always tape up the open end real good. i'm thinking two or three stamps should cover the postage.
give me a week or so to get home to sew up the bags, harvest my sunflowers, and get them on their way to you. might not have time to do the 'fancy tags' ... but here's how i plant my sunflower seeds. i almost always start them in little peat pots .. since it seems that Kentucky Rabbits love to nibble the small green starter leaves when i put the seeds directly into the ground! i watch over them until they are a 'respectable' height .. then SOMETIMES transfer them into larger clay pots until they get a tad taller ... and SOMETIMES .. i just plant them at this stage. AND OH YES .. i do put SOME directlly into the ground .. somtimes they survive and sometimes they become a 'bunny buffet' .. and if they aren't deep enough .. i will sometimes see birds pecking at the ground and gobbling them up!
of course, if planting them directly into the ground .. wait t'il all fear of 'frostings' has passed .. and PLANT THEM WHERE THEY WILL GET DIRECT SUN A GOOD PART OF EACH DAY.
mostly planting them i think depends on the area where you live and the critters who visit our yard.
think SUNNY thoughts! xoxo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Oct 09 2006 : 03:28:33 AM
am home sweet kentucky home .. and a few of those padded SASE were waiting for me. i will need a coupla' days to get the sunflower seeds bags sewn up .. then they will be on their way! xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 29 2006 : 5:30:18 PM
just e-mailed you from this computer . if you don't get it .. e-mail me .. and i'll try it that way. xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| LizDarnell |
Posted - Sep 29 2006 : 12:40:59 PM
Miss Frannie- I too would love some sunflower seeds, if you would email me your address I'll get an envelope sent out to you. Thanks!!!
~Liz |
| Julia |
Posted - Sep 29 2006 : 11:24:40 AM
It,s jist cuz you's so kind!
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 27 2006 : 12:57:00 PM
oh thank you sweet julia .. but ya' trooooooly didn't hafta'. (but i do love little prize-ettes)! i'll be home around october 7th. xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| Julia |
Posted - Sep 27 2006 : 10:57:43 AM
Sent my envelopes off yesterday, with a little sumpin' for your kindess.
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 04:55:47 AM
I CAN HARDLY WAIT to get home to kentucky to start sewing up those little bags and harvesting my sunflowers. hank said he cut the 'heads' off and put them in brown bags to dry and 'catch' the overflow!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| Julia |
Posted - Sep 25 2006 : 7:03:30 PM
Me too! I just picked a bouquet from my neighbor's yesterday. My hubby said, " Why don't you grow some". Guess I will now.
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
| bybiddie |
Posted - Sep 25 2006 : 1:12:25 PM
Me, too, if you wouldn't mind, Frannie. I had sunflowers in buckets (too many darned rocks in my soil) but I have managed to dig up a nice sunny space! Would you email your address? Thanks a bunch!
Susan
Lovin' my life |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 25 2006 : 12:50:54 PM
jillie .. i'll sure be happy to send you what sprouts in my garden. xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| primjillie |
Posted - Sep 25 2006 : 11:29:50 AM
Oh, Frannie - I would love some sunflower and sweet annie seeds! I will send you a stamped envelope. I can't find the right kind of sweet annie out here in CA - mine doesn't flower and it stinks, not in a good way. I also have a hard time finding "real" sunflowers, I don't want just the decorative ones. |
| LadyCrystal |
Posted - Sep 24 2006 : 2:28:27 PM
Frannie,
I grew some different kinds of sunflowers. My question is how do you dry them to get seeds? DO youleave them on the stalk until they dry or do you cut them and bring them in to dry?
Thank you,
Alicia
http://fromcitytocountrygirl.blogspot.com/
follow your dreams |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 24 2006 : 09:55:39 AM
i've only found it in one family owned garden center in central ohio .. i think it is looked upon as a WEED ... if lots of us were to constantly request it at garden centers .. they might start carrying it. xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Sep 24 2006 : 09:36:18 AM
Frannie,
I love the sweet annie, can that be bought someplace. You sent me a little bag and it still smells so good.
NANCY JO |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Sep 24 2006 : 06:40:25 AM
I WOULD LOVE SOME SUNFLOWERS, BUT MY SQUIRLS EAT THEM ALL.
NANCY JO |
| GaiasRose |
Posted - Sep 24 2006 : 06:37:23 AM
Tina I have tall ones ifyou like. I have many many many!! Titans and Arikaras. They grow upward of 12-14 feet....Let me know!! Anyone who wants some you are welcome to them!
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
blog: http://gaiarose.wordpress.com |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 11:55:08 PM
tina .. i think to get the 'tall ones' .. you have to plant that variety .. and those are the seeds i will be sending. i've been planting the seeds from each year's previous crop. next spring i am going to get some of those lovely burgundy colored sunflower seeds (i have a friend who grows them and will snitch some seeds from her). they don't grow as big as these yellow ones though. but oh so lovely! and you will LOVE the aroma of sweet annie .. and it grows HUGE HUGE HUGE and prolific when it does 'take'.
jenny, i think sweet annie is my most favorite garden aroma. i don't think it 'winters' over .. i believe it is an annual .. and grows from 'blown seeds' or birdie droppings. i've never seen it come back on the 'stalk' of a previous plant. and it only seems to come back 'every other year' for me. S FAR. i'm hoping it will come back next year. i think i might have cut it all too soon before it actually went to seed. BUT .. two years later it came back in places that i DID NOT plant it. this plant is a mystery to me so far.
i've heard it is a great deer deterrent. we have hundreds of deer in the forest that surrounds our home and i see them on our little road coming back to cabin creek farm .. but of all the time i've lived here .. i've only seen ONE deer IN the yard and that was the first winter i moved here. it was drinking from the 'bird fountain' in the back of the house.
if you can find a 'plant' of sweet annie .. buy it .. i have had success with that WHEN i can find it.
xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 11:25:02 PM
I'd love some of those as well Miz Frannie. I have never grown sweet annie, in fact don't even know if I know what it looks like. ..and have never grown sunflowers either except for what the birds sow from dropping seed from their feeders..and those usually only grow about 2 -21/2 ft. tall for some weird reason..have never grown the really tall sunflowers..so that will be tons of fun! You gals are all the best sweethearts I have ever met. thanks so much for sharing and caring like yall do.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 11:02:40 PM
I would love some seeds Frannie..and I adore sweet annie!! Our dear Bridge sent me some little plants this year and they have done well...stayed smallish though..I wonder if I didn't plant them in a place they loved. I plan to dry a little and save seeds from them too and hope hope hope I get some next year. Does it over winter at all????? If I heap straw on it? If I cover and pray?? I just love the stuff!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 10:33:28 PM
oh .. and i'll include some 'swee annie' in those packages i send too. don't know if they will 're-seed' for you .. this is the strangest plant i've ever grown. for me .. it only comes back every other year .. and NEVER where i think i planted seeds! but you can just tuck it into a little spot or pot pourii for some yummy smells .. try 'seeding' it in the spring in a peat pot and let me know if it actually 'takes'. xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 10:31:15 PM
oh gurlfrenz .. this is nature's bounty .. and surely nothing is needed by trade. i would just love to have you all have a little piece of my garden and of my heart growing in your garden. i think i have one more dolly pattern envelope yet to mail. has anyone NOT received their dolly pattern yet? xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| newheart |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 9:39:30 PM
Frannie, Sunflowers are my favoite summer flower, and of course the favorite of all the rabbits and squirrels here...I would like a few sunflower seeds, maybe these will take hold for me....I hope I kept your address from the Doll pattern request, if not could you send it my way by email...
margie |
| BlueApple |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 08:11:08 AM
Frannie I would also love some - what do I pay or send you? Hugs,
Julia
Julia
BlueApple Farm |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 06:12:36 AM
Oh, Frannie! I would love some seeds! I have just the spot for sunflowers next year. What can I send you in return? (You who makes everything!!) I know!! And it's a surprise. Hee hee!
Karin |
| celebrate2727 |
Posted - Sep 23 2006 : 05:30:31 AM
The best part of my garden this year was from the seeds I received from farmgirls. And oh my huney chile, the sunflowers from our miz frannie were unbelieveable! The biggest , a 13 foot beauty, will generate enough seeds that I might have sunflowers everywhere next year! The picture below is of the first frannie flower that bloomed.
I cannot thank you enough for them frannie!
blessings
beth
Dreaming of Friday Night Lights
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