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Grow your own bird food.
Michel Lowe
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Can I use any plant seeds from any plants and mix them for bird food ?
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lol, I think some seed might be harmful...such as Digitalis or Lupins? I know birds taste differently to us (yummy slugs) but I would assume poisonous plants go across the board?
I could be wrong...
If you grow the right plants just leave the seedheads on and the birds will help themselves through the winter. Even in the centre of a busy town my daughter's garden is full of goldfinches throughout the year because they love the seeds of the Nigella that grows in her garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The dandelions grow up between the flags on my terrace. I weed them out when I have time (I won't use weedkillers)but last year I didn't and they all flowered and then seeded. The goldfinches came every day and ate the seeds, working methodically flag by flag and leaving little piles of tiny white seed stalks. I spent ages watching them from the kitchen window. Good luck with collecting those seeds then!