Now that the pot was warming up nicely, Alyssa referred to her journal for the next step.
She went to the tool shed and removed a bucket and a spade from it before walking over to soil that the Professor had left in front. She scooped the soil into the bucket and carried it back to her pot. She carefully filled half the pot with soil and let the soil warm up in it for several minutes before she proceeded to the start on the third step of the process.