Result

The plants are planted. And quite a bit of effort was expended as the earth in the boxes was like concrete. I ended up using a kitchen knife and giving myself a blister in the palm. But, by the back of 2pm it was done and I was able to return to the Thistle and the west coast of Skye.
The weather had turned very cold, and what with our wet clothes and Skye a lowering world of gloom and driving clouds and mist and incessant rain, and the fact that we were worn down by two days and nights of dull anxiety in a small and very unstable boat, we might have had some excuse for doubting the wisdom of our ways.