~ Day 27 ~

Everything's going well in Box 2, as usual. No photos, because as far as I have seen, the photos aren't turning up in my posts. I will ask Ms Zhang about that as soon as possible. Which won't be long, because school's starting up again soon. :'(

But in Box 1, disturbing things are happening to my sunflowers. One of them (not Sunflower 1, these are further away from the sweet potato) looks like it has been pushed over - and physically, which means not by some sort of aggro allelochemical. So I am, naturally, worried. I'm not sure if my sunflower will recover...but I definitely hope so. Sunflower 1 is still really quite small compared to the other sunflowers, which is good. The carrots don't appear to have been eaten further - I hope they will recover from that too. 

But in the small pot, the extra sunflower - its lower set of leaves have begun to yellow. Just like Sunflower 1. I wonder what this means - that the allelochemicals don't make leaves turn yellow (in particular), but it's just the weather or something? Because the other sunflower in Box 1 (that isn't Sunflower 1, and also isn't physically pushed over) has perfectly green lower leaves. So this is more than slightly strange.