LOL Alice, maybe fill the pond with beer? Then again, you'll probably end up with a yard full of 'Catters with straws....Could you put fish in there to eat them?

Ideally, the lavender will go on the east side of the house behind the rose bushes and grape arbor. I just can't seem to get the darn things started. I have a batch of seedlings started (the 3rd one this year) but this batch is growing. I'm concerned about transplanting them, should I harden them off? Plant in the garden this year, or just pot them and wait until next spring? What kinds of soil is best? We naturally have dust and not dirt, it's a sagebrush desert here, but I can fix then beds to grow just about anything.

~Elle