A good start

21 April 2007

We have liftoff! There are green things poking through the ground in my vegetable patch. Yes, some of them are weeds, but 23 of them are sunflower seedlings – from the sunflower seeds that I just picked out of the bird food and shoved into the ground. The first seedling took just 6 days to show up. My only previous experience with sunflower seeds was back in primary school when we were given the opportunity to plant secret sunflowers (à la some book we were reading). I buried my seed in the dry dusty ground beneath an oak tree … and that was that. I don’t think any of the seeds we planted reached even the dizzy heights of germination. So to have green things looking up at me from the soil is a good start, I think.