Harvesting Sunflower Seeds

🎂 from 4 years years ⏱️ 1 h 📍 Garden or field ⭐ challenging

Do you want to know how to harvest sunflowers? You're in the right place! Sunflowers are not only beautiful, but you can also snack on their seeds. Once the flowers have faded in autumn, you can cut them off and harvest the sunflower seeds. Just be quicker than the birds. Go ahead and enjoy some sunflower seeds. They taste especially good in salads or muesli.

How it works

Do you know what you can do with sunflower seeds? You can eat them! They are full of healthy proteins and fatty acids and taste great in salads or as a snack. But before we can eat them, we need to harvest them first.
First, choose a sunflower that is already drooping its head. This means it is ripe and ready to be harvested.
Then take a pair of scissors or a sharp knife and cut the stem below the head. Be careful, the head is heavy and can hurt you if it falls.
Now place the head on a tarp or cloth and let it sit in a dry place so the seeds can harden. This takes about a week. After that, you can harvest the sunflower seeds.
When the seeds are hard, you can remove them from the head with your hands, a spoon, or tweezers. You can eat them now or store them in an airtight container. Have fun harvesting and enjoying your homegrown sunflower seeds!