Log 0.5: Here Comes Mary, Our Savior

So, I'm going to try to catch up with these posts now. I've got one more to write after this one, and it takes me from 10-10000 minutes to write these. The goal is to finish both by the end of today. I have maybe 6 or 7 hours of school, and probably homework to do after, but luckily no extracurriculars today. So therefore, it's crunch time, dudes.

Let's get on with the story.

I am waiting eagerly at home for the mysterious woman to arrive with the gorgeous plant babies. I was picturing either a mother having her mid-life crisis to save us all with plants or a retired lady who doesn't care about dying her hair and gives her plants names. Honestly kind of glad it was the second one, although it would have been funny if it was the first... Anyways, good ol' Mary arrives. She's actually quite nice. She hands over this giant tray with, I believe it was 12 plants. She introduces me to each type:

CA Asters, the largest of them.

Yarro, most were very small, a few medium small.

Wild Strawberry, those are always going to be small in height, I think, but they do spread out.

Also a little packet of California poppy seeds, the one thing I'd get to grow from seed.

They all have their own plastic pots filled with the fancy soft soil that has fertilizer bits in it. So yeah! She leaves the plants with me, and drives away, probably off to save someone else's life. 

Now we're reaching the end of this post, so let me wrap this up. That day, I sat down and labeled every plant (simple names, like Aster A, B, C, etc.), then measured their height while stretching them out. Soon I'll fix those measurements, because I don't think I was supposed to stretch them. And I might be planning to do something with those measurements! :)

So next post I'll hopefully come back with some new measurements, and we can finally get into the real documenting! I have some great first day photos of the plants, and I've already planted some poppy seeds in a pot.