How to sow seeds

This was, fortunately, extremely easy, especially in comparison to our efforts on the garden thus far.  Listed on our seed packets were instructions on how deep and how far apart to plant the seeds.  We simply read the directions. And about 15 minutes later, we sowed our seeds.

The only slightly odd thing we did was to create mounds of dirt in which to plant our squash and cucumber seeds. Why, you may ask? I actually have no idea. But Pat told us to do it, so we did it.  I think it has something to do with drainage....I was obviously not paying attention during this tutorial.