Those green shoots of recovery have been personally grown by me and Amelie over the past few days, after I boosted the local economy by spending a pound on a sunflower kit at Asda. According to the instructions, "Your child will learn elements of the National Curriculum including seed germination and plant growth", so I don't know whether to be pleased that Amelie will have passed her SATs by the age of three, or concerned that the act of shoving a seed into some dirt constitutes an education these days.
Either way, we've done a bit of father-daughter bonding at the windowsill, combined our Gardner family talents, and as of this morning, produced the seedling above. It's been very much a joint effort. Amelie planted the seed, we both watered it, then I spent five days wrestling the pot out of her hands, as she ran across the living room checking for germination on the move. She's always had green fingers, mostly due to felt tip use, but this morning she came running up to me with peat on her hands, and an excited cry of "It's growing!"
She followed that up with "I'll pick it..."
I only just stopped her in time.
4 comments:
She will be expecting it to grow a smiley face. :)
I dont think that is a sunflower. I think you may have been sold a rabbits eared plant. But I am not an expert!
Has your flat got a big garden for the sunflower?
It will look beautiful on the balcony, except the people in the flat above might object to it obscuring their view!
I don't know whether I dare tell Amelie the carrot seeds she planted when she was last here have come through looking very healthy, despite being drowned in water. She'll probably want to pull them all up long before they produce carrots!
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