Today was planting day! How hard could it be to plant a mere 10 plants, especially since six of them are all one kind?! Really hard!!!

The Garden Gals told us that many of them grow so big that only a couple can fit into a big container! All of them neededed big containers, and all of the containers neededed to have some fluffy compost in them. (They don’t call the compost “fluffy.” It seems “fluffy” isn’t a proper garden term, but what else can you call last year’s buttonwood leaves and fluff – when the seeds blow away in drifts – teddy poo (they let us fertilize like Bob – Yippee!!!), and two year old dead plants stirreded around in some old soil? It’s fluffy!!!)

We spent half the day rearranging soil into old containers, putting the containers in the right spot, but mostly sweeping up more fluff to add to the soil! We useded to laugh at TV shows where men had to move sofas often for wimmenz, but it’s not so funny when we’re doing the heavy moving!!!

All that work because six tiny little foxgloves (and since when do fox wear plants as gloves?) are gonna get beary big, so can’t fit into even a beary big container together! (And our beary big containers are a yard – meter – wide!!!) Now, after all that work, and all that moving around, we’re not done – just three more plants! It’s a’pose to rain again, so we had to stop. It’s gonna rain for the next couple of days, so they’ll be planting seeds in seed starters tomorrow. That requires no heavy lifting, so we’re hoping they’ll let us help there, too!

It’s also time to sow lettuce and spinach seeds, too, so we’ll have to clean and prepare long containers for those two crops. Then they want us to bring them onto our unheated front porch, since it might freeze in the next week.