Geek Gardener

Hello there. I'm Matt and I'm a computer geek. My fiancée Nancy
is a big gardening fan and she gets a great suntan pottering around in our
garden dealing with plants and flowers and things whilst I waste away typing.
I have therefore decided to redress that balance by trying to grow something
myself this summer. This site tracks my efforts.

Sat 08 May 2004

Day 7

Filed under: — matts @ 3:51 pm

The sunflowers have finally sprouted! This may have been any time in the past 4 days since I ignored them for a while given that nothing was happening. I think it’s the sunflowers; but they might be nasturtiums since I can’t remember which tub is which and I don’t know what either looks like when only a few days old.

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.

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