If you're growing them to feed the birds, just leave them, the chickadees here find them when they're ready, and stash them somewhere for the up-coming winter. Saves a guy a lot of work! smile


"The day I went to work everybody showed up to watch Johnny Luster work. Well, they had a wheelbarrow there, and said I was to push that thing around all day. I looked at it, then turned around and headed for the mountians..."