I just wanted to let everyone in the Vegetable Gardening Forum know that the first Incredible Edibles seed swap of the fall has been posted over in the Round Robin Forum. This swap is for Pumpkins, Winter Squash and Gourds. I thought some of you might be interested in joining. I hope to see you there! -Julia Here is a link that might be useful: I.E. Pumpkins, Squash, and Gourds Swap

Hi all, I am back from New Mexico, it was awesome. Rained there every evening too! (not a drop hit the ground here at home though!) Days were in the 100's (dry heat though, loved it) and nights were in the 60's. It was just me and a great friend of mine, Kimmie. Her sister was there for a couple of days. Kimmie's GM has land there and a house in Logan, NM. (GM passed 2 yrs ago) No phone, no kids/hubbies, only tv were movies we wanted to watch. We spent time on the Ute Lake and just doing nothing all day long! Came home with a great tan and sumburned lips (forgot to take my lip balm). We plan on going back up there in August (just Kimmie, her mom, her daughter and me) then again in Sept. (Kimmie/her hubbie and me and Fox). I go to the Neurosurgeon tomorrow so ya'll plz keep me in your thoughts and prayers. While I was gone a wonderful package from Jeanne arrived. I was soo tickled when I got home. Jeanne sent me these wonderful seeds.. Radish "Pink Beauty" (I have never grown radish's before!) Pink Malva Pink Foxgloves (just love these, must be the name eh?) Red Fig Tomatoes (cant wait for these, I am a tomato freak!) Red Bull's Blood Beets (never grown beets before but I love beets!!!) Red Popper Peppers (mmmm say the guys!) Jeanne also sent some Pink Gardening gloves that I have already used pulling weeds from my new south bed. The weeds seemed to take over while I was gone. Fox did the watering for me but he just didn't water like I do so I pretty much lost my veggie garden. A couple: ... squash plants, eggplant plants, pepper plants, tomatoes, cukes, and my gourds survived. I also have a pair of cardinals nesting in amongest my gourds on my gourd frame. They took advantage of me being gone also I guess but there is no way I will make them move as Cardinals are my FAV birds! Jeanne thank you for the wonderful seeds you sent. I won't be planting anything until the drought is broken here but I do plan to have a great Fall garden and these seeds are going to be in it! Thank you soo much. My package to you will go out this week. The trip to NM was a spur of the minute thing so I didn't have time to think right before I left. I hope everyone has had a great weekend! Smugs, Pixie

I received my seeds from Dean today. He wrote up beautiful descriptions of all the seeds. I'm having a great trip around the world. He also sent me some great recipes. Here's the recipes: Bavarian Potato Salad (German) Suya Kabobs (Nigerian) Iranian Chicken in Tomato Sauce Pepino Aqua Fresca (Mexico) - a refreshing summer drink made with cucumbers. It's 93 degrees today - the hottest day of the year. This sounds good! Pina Aqua Fresca (Mexico) - MMMmmmmm Pineapple drink! Chimichurri Sauce (Argentina) I haven't eaten dinner yet. I can't tell you how good all of these sound! Now for the seeds: Asparagus Beans (China) Blue coco Beans (France) Armenian Cucumbers (Armenia) Super Zagross Middle Eastern Cucumber (Iranian) Cyclanthera Pedata - Lady's Slippers (Andes) Cham-ae Melon (Korea) Alma Paprika (Hungary) Feher Ozon Paprika (Hungary) Cyklon Pepper (Polish) Chile de Arbol Pepper(Mexico) Munchener Bier Radish (Germany) Purple Plum Radish (France) Brandywine Sudduth Tomato(USA) Wapsipinicon Peach Tomato(USA) Italian Market Wonder Tomato (Italy) Whew! Well, I'm tired from the trip. Thanks so much, Dean!

whooo whoooo~~~ I got the conf. # and it is 0308 1400 0002 2223 7576 I can't wait for the next round~~ I got sooo much goodies out of the box I got some evergreen bunching onion seeds,spinach seeds,carrot seeds, rainbow radishes seeds,garlic gloves,Variegated Ginger, the last piece of culinary ginger root and some blubs. Thank you everyone for care about my flu.You girls are sooooooo sweet~~~~after 3 days of sleeping I feel much better,but I still have a little cough. My friend told me to heat up half cup of honey and add half of fresh lemon juice and drink it will stop the cough for whole night.I try it last night and it works better then any other cough syrup.