Simply Irresistible, she’s so fine theres no telling where my money went…

sunflower ’strawberry blonde’, originally uploaded by greenhousematt.

I think I(N.) have a problem and the first step is to admit it right?

J. and I have decided to try to grow some seeds. We didn’t do a ton of research and we didn’t put a ton of effort into and since we no longer turn on the heat in our apartment all of our potential seedlings are currently germinating in my office without any special light and heating pad. So needless to say it’s a rather slow process.

One of the first things we planted was strawberry blonde sunflowers like the one above. However, being only a couple weeks old they look like this.

And “oddly enough” the amount of hovering I do a day has no affect on their growth rate. We do have other seeds planted and staying with me in the office but right now they are just newspaper pots of dirt. I do hover over them occasionally and sometimes do a little finger poking to see if anything is coming up but alas so far no luck. I guess in the meantime the sunflowers will have to tolerate an overattentive “mother.”

Do you find yourself hovering over your seeds, seedlings, or plants? Any suggestions for reducing my complusive need to do so?