Growing a Sunflower House: Week 4

June 14th, 2009

It’s week 4 of growing our sunflower house. We have enjoyed watching the sunflowers get taller…..such a rewarding project for young children because sunflowers grow so fast you can almost watch it happen before your eyes. I have a hard time taking credit for the how great the sunflowers are doing….the fact that we have cool temperatures and the occassional rain shower has helped them grow strong.

We have had one casualty and a couple of injuries though. One of the sunflowers just didn’t make it. He got sort of floppy one day so I watered him some more but he just didn’t make it. This has sort of created a wide open “window” I guess. The morning glory will climb up in that area so I will train it to climb onto the next available sunflower stalk.

Earlier today a neighbor friend came over with her children and one of the toddlers walked right through two sunflower and held them in his hands as he continued to walk! (holds heart in hand) His little foot crushed the morning glory and thankfully the sunflowers bounced right back up. In no time at all the sunflowers will have created the walls that will make it the magical sunflower house we have been waiting for and I know all children will be drawn to the door so they can walk inside…..I’m sure we won’t have to worry about them trying to walk through any walls.