Worms

Here's a promising sign:

(okay, I took it with my camera phone so it may be hard to see clearly) I took this picture while I was planting my herbs.  The metal thing on the lower left is my spade.  You can see up top in the center is a worm.  I encountered a lot of worms while I was digging around.  Worm castings are excellent fertilizer so I was quite excited to find so many of them.

It was rainy and cold for most of the day and the plot still smells like fish.

Last weekend in March

Okay, so here's the update on what I did last weekend:

• Poured potting soil into three large pots
• Put herbs into the ground
• Weeded

Ripley destroyed my catnip plant so I purchased a new one while I was out buying another bag of potting soil.  I planted it next to the lavender so maybe that will keep him away from it.

I did not plant the tomatoes yet.  I will grow them inside first.  I have a room upstairs in my house that gets all the afternoon sun and is warmer than the other rooms.

The weather has been nice and rainy lately (typical weather for Portland for this time of the year).  This has kept the ground moist.  I also hope that it has helped leach the nutrients from the fertilizer into the ground.  So far, the garden still smells like fish.  It's not too unpleasant, but I hope that this goes away soon.

Rain

I was going to get the plants in the ground today, but two things held me back:

1) I had to go into work (overtime, woohoo!)

2) It rained pretty much non-stop the rest of the day.

The forecast doesn't look great for tomorrow, but I'll see what I can get done in between the showers.

If it does decide to rain all day, then I'll go out camera shopping instead.