We found two sunflowers which have come up in exactly the place we planted some last summer. We had pulled up last seasons plants so it was an added bonus to have two healthy plants in their place.
I also took the seedlings out of the conservatory and planted them up in the rough patch behind the chicken house. We are going to scatter wild flower seed there (and hope the wild birds don't eat them) as it doesn't need good soil. Next year, after a fence has been erected there, we'll possibly grow peas, sweetcorn or gourds there but this year we hope to have a nodding barrier of chocolate sunflowers in the late summer. At present the plants are only an inch and a half tall and look so tiny in the rough ground but sunflowers are great at looking after themselves and fabulous to introduce children to gardening as you feel you can almost see them growing.
I banked up Luke's potatoes and looked out of the conservatory three quarters of an hour later to see the cat using the newly turned soil as a litter tray. Splendid. Out with a bag and all was well again (it's an added insult having to bag someone else's cat's litter up after they have left their own garden looking good to use yours, isn't it?). Two weeks after Luke planted his Trail of Tears Indian beans I was suspicious as there is still no sign of life so Luke dug around one of the canes and could not find either of the black shiny beans he had planted. Upon searching around all the canes he has still not come across any hidden treasure - the beans had vanished! He has planted some more and so we will keep an eye out for the first hint of green breaking through the soil. Watch this space! He did find a bean bang in the middle of the potatoes though. Possibly the birds scratched them up and flicked one into the potato patch?
Every plant had a good watering and then it was in to eat red velvet cake and drink tea. A lovely Sunday tea-time treat.
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