Vine House Farm – Niger Seed-4kg – Wild Bird Food

More and more people are feeding niger seed in their gardens and with great success. To avoid waste niger seed is best fed from a special niger seed feeder. Our niger seed has been specially heat treated to help reduce seedling re-growth. Niger can also be fed from a bird table or the ground, but in both cases use it sparingly as its tiny size and light weight makes it difficult to contain, and especially when it’s windy. One benefit of feeding it this way, though, is that you might also attract Redpolls – which really are a rare sight in most gardens.Niger seed (also known as thistle seed or nyjer) is a tiny oil rich seed that has special oil releasing properties, and is the favoured seed of a garden favourite – the Goldfinch. Niger seed will also attract Siskins, Redpolls and Greenfinches. It comes is from a plant called the Ramtil which is native to the highlands of Ethiopia. The Ramtil plant is actually a relative of the sunflower, though, and quite wrongly, niger is often referred to as thistle seed. Niger seed is still grown in Ethiopia for export, but much of the seed imported into the UK now comes from India.