winter bird tucker

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Well Ive just about out of green seeding grasses and Sunflowers now so whats somr good winter type stuff for the weed patch please ?
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Craig52
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Try milk thistles,silverbeet,wintergrass and chickweed the white flowered one,not the orange flower one but might be a bit early for these,and of coarse sprouted seed. Cheers Craig
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Canary seed, oats and wheat make great milk seed for your hook bills.
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crocnshas wrote:Try milk thistles,silverbeet,wintergrass and chickweed the white flowered one,not the orange flower one but might be a bit early for these,and of coarse sprouted seed. Cheers Craig
Chickweed (the white one) is Stellaria media http://www.kingdomplantae.net/chickweed.php
The orange one is Scarlet Pimpernel Anagallis arvensis http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/angar.htm
There is also a blue flowering form of Anagallis arvensis http://www.birdperch.com/blog/uploaded_ ... nel-03.jpg
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