Sunflowers are growing

It's been a week since I last told you about the sunflower seeds I planted, and their growth at that time. So here's an update...

Here's that second little sprout from last week. It seems like it's about doubled in size and it may have split, which probably isn't too good for a flower that gets as huge as these hopefully will. We'll have to wait and see what happens.


This is the one that is growing great, and it's still going strong. I think it's doubled in size too. The lowest leaves seem to still be dinner for the bugs, but the bugs are leaving the rest of it alone, so that's good.

Last week I had a picture of a leafless stem, as the 3rd potential successful flower, but there's been no change in that one at all.

We still haven't gotten our garden together yet. We've been just too crazy busy. Anna will be done with school this week, so there's a good chance we can get some seeds planted early next week.

Also, Liam planted some seeds at school in a couple of cups a bunch of weeks ago. One was a sunflower seed, and the other was a pumpkin seed. Of the two, one is growing very well, and the other hasn't grown at all. I believe the one that's growing is the pumpkin seed. I may have to put it in the ground soon as I think it's beginning to be too big for it's little cup. That would be so cool if we can keep it going and grow some pumpkins. Even if they were only softball sized, I'd be happy with that.

That's it for the update, maybe I'll do this every week. I haven't decided yet.

btw- I'm LOVING this June gloom weather!

Future Mammoths (I Hope)

Almost a month ago, I planted a pack's worth of mammoth sunflower seeds along the fence in the front yard. Most of them went into a planter area that used to have a bunch of other bulb type plants.

As you can see in the picture below, the ground was pretty dry. I wasn't keeping up on watering the area. I put seeds in about 8-10 different spots in this section, and then watered it a lot.


Almost a month later, I have only one lone flower that's doing awesome. I put my shoe in the picture for scale, so you can see how big it's gotten. When it was only a few inches tall, it was getting eaten by bugs quite a bit. In fact there was another flower shoot coming up at the same time, but it was getting eaten even more, and it stopped growing.

This is that other flower shoot. It's finally grown some new leaves, but it's still quite tiny. As long as the bugs don't eat the leaves, and it gets plenty of water, I expect it should be able to catch up to the other one.

In another spot in the front yard, I put some seeds, and this lone flower shoot came up. It too got devoured by bugs, but it remains green, and I try to remember to water it as much as the others. Because it's still green, I'm hoping it will also soon sprout new leaves and begin to grow.

It would be great to see these grow into huge sunflowers. They're suppose to get up to 8 feet tall or something like that. I'll keep you updated.

In other planting news, we still haven't gotten a chance to fill that other planter box in the back yard yet. Things have been super busy. Hopefully soon we can get the dirt in the box, and get some plants growing in them.