Planting an Herb Garden

It is spring in Colorado, and some days it is summer.  The garden is coming along nicely and I was finally confident enough that all snow and frost was a memory to plant the more delicate herbs like basil and the (pre-started) tomatos.  As usual, I decided on only one or two tomato plants and bought 4. I also bought a bunch of flowers to really do up the back corner of the garden under the shade tree, since I think that may be a favorite spot this year.  Of course, I took Xander with me and he showed the most interest I've seen from him yet regarding exploring, cruising and *almost* walking along the rows of plants, touching the different colors and textures.   He got filthy!  I feared for the delicate starter plants, but he was generally pretty careful and certainly he had a blast.  While the plants themselves survived nicely, I can't promise all the price sticks ended up in the right pots....

We got everything home and the whole way I was explaining to Xander about how we would spend the afternoon planting our herb garden and flowers.  I'm not sure if he connected the herbs in the pantry (which he plays with and re-arranges for me *all the time* with the "herb garden" but as soon as I turned my back he'd pulled the herbs out and had taken them outside with him and wanted to give them to me!  What a helper!