Fiona frowns, puzzled. [i]How...how can grass grow without the organic matter produced by dead creatures, and the worms to aerate it? How...puzzling.[/I] So she decides to take a sample of the grass itself, trying to remove a small chunk of top soil with it, so that she can have the roots as well. She works hard not to touch it and transfer her own bacteria, but she knows she' standing here breathing on it, so this is all very imperfect. Still, she double bags the sample, just in case.