Hi, I can pack you up a flat rate box of a mixture of Hostas, plain green and green/white variegated, plain green Vinca and variegated Vinca vines, dark yellow Irises, light yellow Irises,white Irises, lavender Irises, yellow cannas, some Daffodil bulbs, unknown name ground cover,plus more. I am interested in your Daylillies and Hostas if they are not the ones I have already and the Daylillies are not orange. Email me if interested and let me know what you might be interested in. Thanks Jackie

I am looking for brussels sprouts seeds that are easy to grow. I tried a variety from walmart last year and they did not produce. They were tall but never had veggies. I guess I was supposed to "top" them. i want something easy! LOL. SOmething I can start indoors soon, put out in the ground (water, yata yata yata) and viola! Brussels Sprouts! I am also interested in cabbage but not earliana, I tried that one last year and it did not make good sourkrout. I do not have anything special to trade, but will send you anything from my list. Thank you!

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I know more about the cool season low water grasses, but I did pick up some knowledge about the warm season ones during my initial research. I considered buffalo grass, but decided against it because it would have a very short growing season here and it requires a lot of sun and I have a lot of shade in the back. If you've got Bermuda grass, it uses relatively little water, but it does use more than buffalo grass. If you want the Bermuda to fill in and take over, you'll need to use practices that favor Bermuda. Those include mowing low and fertilizing about 1 lb of actual N per month. That may be difficult to do with an organic program. For a really good description of how to tend Bermuda, do a search for Bermuda Bible. TW wrote it and there used to be links to it here. If they're gone, you can probably find it using Google. If you want to switch to buffalo grass, you'll want to kill the Bermuda first. If you're going to kill it organically, you'll need to wait until it warms up again, then water it well and cover it with clear plastic and keep it covered for at least a couple of weeks. The hotter it is when you do this, the better your results will be. Once that's done, you can plant seed, plugs or sod. Seed is the cheapest, sod is the most expensive, plugs are in between. Seed is probably the hardest to establish, sod the easiest and plugs in between. The plug and sod varieties don't produce seed heads and also don't produce pollen, and those are both important considerations. The seed heads are sort of burrs and the pollen can be tough on people with allergies. I'd probably go with plugs if I were doing it. Once it gets started, you want to mow it high and fertilize it very little. Fertilizing it more won't really hurt it, but will allow other things to grow that won't compete if it's not fertilized much. I would give it 1/2 lb N per 1000 sq ft per YEAR (note that's half as much as Bermuda uses in a month). You could bump it to a full pound a year, but I wouldn't go any higher than that. There's somebody who posted here for a while who planted some buffalo grass in the PHX area and he kept a blog about it. Here is a link to a thread where he posts a link to his blog.