Sunflowers

Hello old chaps, happy weekend to you all!

Now, a few weeks ago, E & J decided to grow some sunflowers. Of course, being the helpful (nosey) Airedales that we are, we had to help them out!

Here's J checking out the flowerpots with Cassidy keeping an eye on things.



And E clowning around for the camera too.

They are such silly billies! Look at Cassidy watching, wondering what on earth they are doing, har har!

And of course if one does it, the other has to try it out too.

I thought I ought to get involved to try and get them to concentrate on the job in hand. Didn't really work though.



And then I got a bit distracted because I spotted my Kong on the table.

Anyway, soon everyone settled down and the pots were filled with soil.

They made holes for the seeds with their fingers, then planted a few in each pot.

Here they are all planted. If you look, you can see that Princess Cassidy has now retired to her throne to watch over proceedings.

Watering time. Yes, Miss Nosey Parker just had to get of her bed to check what was happening.

As the girls are only here at weekends, we promised them we'd keep the sunflowers watered and generally take good care of them.

And here they were after a week! All but one pot sprouted.

As you can see, Cassidy made a thorough job of inspecting the seedlings.

A very thorough job! She had lots of mud in her beard after this. She tried to tell mummy a mud pack would be good for her beard!

And this weekend when the girls came, the seedlings were big enough to be planted outside. As usual, little sis had to be in the thick of it.

Here her & J are deciding which are the strongest seedlings. We only planted the biggest and healthiest looking sunflowers.

The little pots were actually made of something biodegradable, so they could be planted too, nice and easy!

After all the bossing everyone about, Cassidy needed a little rest.

The seedlings seem to be doing well. We have both promised not to eat them, and hopefully by the height of summer we'll have some lovely jolly sunflowers growing along the back fence.

Toodle pip

Harry x