It's because you have your profile set so that members cannot see your email addy (and this may be compounded by the posters here having their profiles set the same way). With things set that way, no one can email reply to a message sent through gardenweb. So... Set your profile so I can see your email. Go to: Member Pages (link at bottom of this page), select "Edit your membership details", and set the box that says "Show my email address to"...."Members". -Tina

Hi Karen, have a look at my exchange page, I have a few different herbs and some various veggies, hopefully something your looking for. Im interested in your white coneflower and your lemon thyme. Let me know what you think. Thank, Jon Here is a link that might be useful: My exchange page

John, I did see the Early girl bush. I think it also said the fruit were larger than EG. I'm glad you liked the taste. No sense to get early tomatoes if the taste is not good! I am presently growing some tomatoes whose taste is just adequate, so I'd like to make sure that what I plant from now on is likely to be pretty good. I will keep EGB on my short list then. Amberroses, did you like the taste of stupice? How did the plants yield for you? Any other info? Keiki, sounds like you are a fan of the smaller sized pac choi also. I will keep the CCPC on my short list too then. I won't start the pac choi till cooler weather starts, I guess. I just want to order seeds soon. Thanks for the input, you three. Anna

Hate to be tedious, but I'm pretty sure I don't start nearly as many seeds indoors as you do. Bulk bags of seed-starting mix could be wasted on me, so I am not familiar with these brands. The seed-starting mixes I have seen (Jiffy Mix, Miracle Grow, etc.) are either almost pure Spagnum peat (ground) or Spagnum and perlite, in what looks like about a half and half mix. I would imagine that the mixes high in Spagnum would either stay too wet for beans or dry out completely if you move the pots outside. Are the mixes you use lighter (containing sand, etc.?). The only reason I can think of for the mostly-Spagnum mixes is starting tiny seeds. I have some (dark-colored) Romano 14 seeds which I never did get to sprout, even the year I got them from a supplier for commercial growers. Maybe I'll have to give the nitrate method a try. At first, I imagined you immersing the pots, and wondered if something might float away. Incidentally, I have good luck using a Thompson & Morgan trick for soaking seeds (not beans) where the seed coats contain germination inhibitors and/or are very hard. They recommended adding a little hydrogen peroxide to soaking water for alstromeria seed. This has speeded up germination of several other hard-seeded species for me. I guess this is for plants which are adapted to sprout only after there has been a period of reliable moisture in the soil. I have some crotolaria (a legume) seedlings which germinated long before they were supposed to after this treatment. The soaking water turned very dark as something leached out of the seed coats.