Pumpkin seeds

[Hekomi]

Sunflower seeds are delicious. When we carve pumpkins, I roast the seeds in the shell with some salt... delish!

[ianpallen]

Never tried one. My wife asked me if I would try one. I said no. I dont even like the sesame seeds on buns. lol

[Hekomi]

I don't like sesame seeds, but I like sunflower and pumpkin seeds.

[ianpallen]

I might try to get some pumpkin seeds in the shells and plant next year. That is if the snails around here dont eat them like they did with my one and only bottle gourd plant out of 13 seeds.

[2LittlePuds]

I can just imagine your garden next year ian overrun with wheat and pumpkins lol

[ianpallen]

The top of my garden is a bit uneven and a bit wild. I am not a keen gardener but I keep the lawns down and the front hedge neat. I dont even have any borders as the grass is up to the path. I suffer with severe back pains and cant dig. I was thinking of getting wild meadow seeds and scattering them at the top of the garden for the wildlife. One year I will. lol

[2LittlePuds]

That would be lovely. I have huge 12ft sliding glass doors at the back of my house looking into the back garden. The kids love sitting on the sofa watching the birds come in. Planting wild meadow seeds would be brill, youd attract all sorts of wildlife. I think thats what ill do when the kids are older and i can ditch the trampoline and swings that are hogging the back end of the garden!

[ianpallen]

I already get loads of wild birds in the garden. Just lately, more sparrows (none last year), robins, green finches, gold finches, bull finches, bluetits, coaltits, greattits, long tailed tits, collared doves, jack daws, blackbirds, magpies, and a couple of hedgehogs every night that eat the cats food. There are some frogs around here and if I put a pond in, I would get newts too.

[2LittlePuds]

Next door but one has built a pond on the public land at the back of all our houses. Lots of tadpoles there last time we looked

[ianpallen]

My mate done a part of the allotments over the back that were condemned as no mans land because they are not worth growing anything on. He dug a pond, turned it into lawn and made it nice. There was about 15 frogs in it last year and quite a few newts. He drained it this year to get all the american crawfish out. He has also planted apple, pear and plumb trees there. We have not had a bad winter her for two years so he does not know if the work he has done will help it to stop flooding.