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Old 13-03-2011, 12:26 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Is birdseed viable?

On Mar 12, 9:53 am, 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?


Andy answers:

No. Birds come from eggs and not from seed. There are no known
instances of birdseed that has actually produced birds. Other things
come up, which can be harvested and smoked at parties... But
birds.???? No....

Andy in Eureka, Texas