Something I would only admit to you!

[ncgnance]

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Your black and yellow bird and mate are Gold Finches. And no doubt they will be joined by any others in the neighborhood. They just LOVE sunflowers. They are happy little birds, cheerful and fun to watch. Enjoy!!

 

[wegotchickens]

I thought they were finches of some kind. They are really pretty, but so far I've only seen the one pair of them. It's the first I've seen them in our neighborhood, too, although I see them all the time at work.

They are very bold, and visit even when I'm right there looking at the sunflower plants! I swear the female yelled at me for picking some seed heads for the chickens...

 

[d.k]

* I've had a couple corn plants come up, too. Recognized them when they got about 6-8 inches tall. No sunflowers, though. I wanted some and even scattered about 2O lb of sunflower seed out back, but I think birds, squirrels, mice and other critters got it all.

 

[warcard]

We had a tomato plant growing in one of the areas the chicken tractor had been(and corn).

Hubby dug it up and re-potted it

 

[SpottedCrow]

Way to recycle! LOL

 

[purr]

We had a dumpster for the stuff from building the house , just had it removed last week found one of those potatoes that are wrapped in plastic wrap for the microwave.It had busted out of the plastic and I have a potato plant .

 

[1acrefarm]

I get volunteer plants in my compost piles and gardens all the time. I got some corn and tomato plants this year. I pulled the volunteer corn before it tasseled and fed it to the goats. I did not want the yellow corn pollinating with my white corn. I gave some of my volunteer tomato plants away but I planted some in a row off to themselves. They are doing well and getting loaded. I still have not tried one of the volunteers yet. I also had cabbage come up volunteer. I thought this is odd chicken feed don't have cabbage seed. A cabbage core had actually rooted itself and grew a head of cabbage. I never would of imagined this happening.

 

[thechickenchick]

These are great stories! I am glad I am not the only one! My transplanted corn still isn't doing very well. Oh well! Worth a try! Some of my sunflowers are 4 ft tall now. They just needed more space I guess.

 

[kinnip]

Corn is a heavy feeder. Fish emulsion will get it growing. I planted corn and sunflowers this year. The goats destroyed both. The sunflowers didn't even make it to seed. The corn is intoxicating to them. I have just enough of it left that there will be no free ranging until it's harvested.
We have a volunteer tomato, but it's weird. Last year, my BF bought a hybrid tomato from the Home Depot. It didn't grow, it didn't produce, it just got uglier and uglier until we took it to the woods and threw it out. During the fall, he noticed it was growing again, but without fruit. Two days ago he comes in excited because his freaky-deaky mater plant finally has fruit. Surely, there must have been a fruit last year that we missed. Who ever heard of a biannual tomato?!

 

[Alabama_boy]

I have never seen corn go through a chicken whole. This is interesting where the corn came from.