in the garden

I'm a good plant mommy today. I watered all of the plants & finally transplanted the basil and the rosemary into bigger pots. I'm still a little concerned about the basil plant though; I think I might have accidently severed some roots during transplanting. :(

I wonder how difficult it would be to do cuttings from the plants to put into different pots. I haven't a clue how to do it.

dinner's cooking

I'm making a lentil/barley/vegetable soup today, using up some of the leftovers in the fridge.
I just threw 2 cups of lentils in the bottom of the crockpot, chopped up an onion, 2 stalks of celery, several baby carrots, and threw all of those veggies on top of the lentils. Opened a can of diced tomatoes, dumped that in, added some chopped garlic, some vegetable bouillon cubes, poured in about 1/4 of a bag of barley, and added water to cover. Turned the crockpot on high for now, but I might switch it to low if it looks like it's getting too hot.

We'll see how it turns out... I wonder if I should make some bread to go with it?

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The soup was pretty good, despite the fact that the split peas never totally softened (my lentils are actually a lentil/split pea mixture). I wonder what went wrong?