The nasturtiums are mostly perky, although some of the bigger ones look a bit limp, and, er, asleep from the ordeal of moving. They’re still very green though so I think they will pull through.

Cora licks her lips for some reason. No, she didn’t eat them.

Two days outside and sunflowers one and three seem to be liking life.

As are two and four.

There are loads of nasturtiums coming up now.

Whilst the sunflowers are looking a bit furry.

An exclusive shot from outside, showing the nasturtiums pressed up against the (paint smeared) window, clamouring for sunshine. The sunflowers today are boring by comparison.

And by the next morning, the nasturtiums have turned around the face the sun again. Magic!

I noticed for the first time a fourth sunflower attempting to live, right in the corner. It’s only a little stubby unhealthy looking thing so I don’t expect it to survive, but I shall give it my full support and encouragement regardless.

The nasturtiums are looking well happy. I’ve turned this tray around 180 degrees too, so you can see their happy faces all pointing the same way. In theory by tomorrow they’ll’ve craned their necks around so they’re looking at the sun again.

Nancy helped me prop up the three sunflowers with some old chopsticks. Note that the trays have been rotated 180 degrees to give the other side some sun, so the weirdo one that wasn’t growing straight is now at the front-left. It has been forcibly stretched out like its brothers and now looks a bit more normal, if a little reluctant.

The sunnys continue to grow well. One and Two are starting to sway a bit and are in need of a supporting stick, whilst Three continues to restlessly churn it’s compost up. Still only three of them though, which is a bit disappointing since I planted eight.

Meanwhile, sturtium One has some well-developed leaves, whilst others are starting to sprout nicely.

The sunflowers have gone green (which makes them look a lot better), and some of the nasturtiums have come up! As you can see I have moved the nasturtiums to the windowsill.

Sunflower three (at the top-right of the lefthand tub here) continues to give cause for concern. After his reburial yesterday he’s kind of all wriggled back above the surface worm-style, rather than growing upwards and nicely in a straight line. Hopefully he will sort himself out - I’ll continue to make sure his white bits are covered with compost as much as possible.

Two of them seem very happy, if rather yellow, but the third one to have popped up seems to be some sort of mutoid sunflower/furry/maggotmonster, and the fourth seems to have come up, decided it didn’t like it in the open air, and then ducked back down undercover ostrich-style. Since the box says to put them in the light when “small shoots appear” I’ve put the sunflowers on the windowsill.

On my Dad’s advice I dug up sunflower three and replanted him, since it seems like I may have planted him upside-down in the first place, hence the weird mutant growth pattern.

No sign of anything happening with the nasturtiums, so they’re still in the pantry in the dark.

Here’s the tub before I started piercing holes in it (as per the instructions)

Then I filled it with compost and stuffed the little nasturtium seeds into it, covering them up as I went

And here’s the other one done, together with it’s drip tray. The drip tray is the bit labelled “DRIP TRAY".

And here is the completed assemblage.

My attention then turned to the sunflower seeds. The one at the top of the packet looked a bit skanky so I didn’t plant that one.

And here they both are, finished