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Old 12-03-2011, 06:03 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Is birdseed viable?


"Billy" wrote in message
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General Schvantzkoph wrote:

Is birdseed viable or has it been treated in some way so that it won't
germinate?

I'd like to make my yard as bee friendly as possible. Costco birdseed is
cheap and consists of sunflowers and other seeds that should produce
flowers that bees will like assume that they will germinate. If I plant
some of the bird food will it grow?


The black oil sunflower seeds are viable.
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I think they are all viable. There's always a plant menagerie under the
feeder each spring.