Day Two . Hello seeds meet soil .

one drizzly sunday afternoon, after many days of admiring our seedlings in the kitchen -it was time to get them grounded. so, we dug a little square for the mints (chocolate and spearmint):






and a corner for our bleeding hearts to neighbor rhonda, complementing her purples with chains of pink satiny purses.
dotted with yellow and purple violas in between.

then it was on to our empty beds and our soil.
oh our soil... a beautiful melange of blacks tans grays and reds. we squished it between our fingers until it blended to a creamy charred brown, and our fingers were frozen numb from the wet cold.

first we placed lady lavender, a seedling from union square green market.

and next our sun needy bee balm: microscopic seeds. to someday be herb plants with hot pink, red and white flower-bursts, irresistible to butterflies hummingbirds bumblebees and useful as a tea.
chives and parsley were the next.
each owning a patch of bed marked by a marigold.


we lined the edge of the large bed with 2 rows of lettuce seeds. and lastly sprinkled the edge of the smaller bed with chamomile seeds.





we topped the garden with mesh-screen squares to keep the birds from snacking on our work. and for now, that should bring you up to seed.....


by: Kelsey