Today's outdoor update

Before I begin, I have no idea why the times of these postings are so wacky. I manually corrected this one so hopefully it will figure it out from here.

Sam made a valiant effort digging in the veggie garden. We hope that tomorrow will be the final installment of digging/initial soil preparation. This lettuce won't plant itself!

Tonight I planted Bachelor's Blossoms, from seed in 2 places. The first picture is over by the garage. This was the soil that had tons of worms, which probably means it is healthy enough to grow without additional fertilizer so we planted one batch of flowers here and we'll see what happens. The 2nd batch went in the far corner (which used to be the child's rock garden). That soil isn't nearly as nice so we ammended it with garden/veggie soil that has fertilizer in it (the same stuff we are using for the veggie garden). Supposedly they germinate in 7-15 days so we'll know soon if anything is happening. 2 different types of soil in spots with 2 different amounts of sun. Experiment away, nature.

PS I think today is a good opportunity to say that watering the grass is going to get old. I don't mind at night when we are already working in the garden but I'm less than motivated (about anything really) in the morning when the grass needs its water the most. I've been keeping up so far but only time will tell how much I really want this grass. Hopefully once it starts growing I'll be more motivated to keep it up.