Is birdseed viable?

 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.

 

There was a flap a few years ago because a birdseed mix contained hemp,
which was supposed to be heat treated to kill it, but treated incompletely,
so lots of little old ladies had a pot farm under their bird feeders the
next summer.  (At least, that's what they told the narcs).
But yes, oilseed sunflower and millet certainly germinates.

Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

 

 I would not bother as the seeds will sprout in a very tight proximity
to each other that is overwhelmingly high in N2.   Great for compost
additions.  
I  Feed Niger, Black Sunflower and suet.  The Niger is irradiated I
believe.

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