The Sunflower Harvest

Since we had the great opportunity of experiencing the hottest summer in history and huge drought, our little gardening projects did not work out so well. Our attempts at tomatoes, peppers, corn in a bucket, and onions were futile. Everything got fried to a crisp and died. The only thing that made it is one small batch of radishes and SUNFLOWERS. They did magnificently in the heat and were so fun to watch grow. We planted them under the kitchen window and they were beautiful. Caleb loved them! So for Family Night this week, we harvested our sunflowers. It was a lot of fun. We now have a large Ziploc bag of sunflower seeds. It wasn't much produce for all our gardening attempts but at least we got something out if it and the flowers were really pretty to have around.  This is something we will definitely do again next year.

We planted a smaller sunflower in the front and then the large in the back.  They got so high and were so big!

Caleb loved that they were bigger than anyone in our family.

Our Favorite!

Working to get all the seeds out with mom and dad

Our bucket full of seeds

All roasted after a night of soaking in salt water

Hmmmmm....they taste pretty good!