I have a lot of water floating on the top and it will take a while for that to actually soak down. but once it so down the soil will be even more compacted. and you might need to put a little more dirt in. you really want the dirt to be at the same height of where the plant seedling was before. so in this case, the tomato seedling was in the dirt at a certain height, and we want to keep it the same as it was. will come back to this once its actually soaked all the way through. as you can see the water has soaked down. and I have a puddle on the counter. so this is soaked all the way through. now we are going to fill it up a little more here. 