Most common reason here in the Northwest is unfavorable weather during bloom.

Homolite super wiz 66 and XL12 I don't use them any more nothing wrong with both saws there in dry storage drain all fluid out put away fire wood saws. I purchase 038 stilh in 1986 have never saw saw out cut it has 18 inch bar but do keep scary sharpe. I still think new shape 2 bars 8 chains one gas tank new fuelline in 1999 in 2000 I cut very large oaks was 42 cords in 2 trees and limbs one 57 at stump one 53 at stump felling only time use dogs help with cut I'm butt about my saw use only my mix gas my saws the 038 never had to clean carburator I take parts brush and clean around caps before take them off the brush round one.

Dorothy, It is the same here. Things that have deep roots are doing fine, but new plantings and things with shorter roots are not doing so well. I have had to water several times now. I am not deep watering yet, because there is still moisture after you get down a couple of inches, but I'm afraid to ignore the onions because they are in that heavy growth cycle. I hope I didn't wait too long to start, but I can see the growth from day-to-day. I don't expect them to look like those that 'busy1' gets, but they are sizing up pretty fast at this point. Some of the in-ground ones have fallen over but are still green, but I think they got knocked down. We have a neighbor cat that seems to think he lives at our house. He belonged to some renters that moved off and left him so he adopted the family next door to me. They have a dog and a cat and a doggy door. For awhile they thought their cat really had an appetite until they saw the other cat dart across the room a few times. She tried for weeks to find a home for him, even took him to the vet and had him fixed, but no one wanted him. She says he is a good cat, but mostly stays gone all day and comes home to eat and sleep. I don't keep cushions in the outside chairs, and try not to provide comfort for him, but almost everyday I see him in our shed,going under the storage building, or chase him out of my garden. He doesn't seem to bother those onions in the raised bed now, but when they were first planted he did and I didn't notice they had been dug up until it was too late to save them. Some of the onions in the raised bed have 9 or 10 leaves, so they have the potential to have some size, if I can keep them going long enough. All of those are 'Candy', but the ones in the ground are a mixture of things. I picked peas this morning, and also pole beans. I have two kinds of pole beans producing. No great quantities yet, but enough for dinner. LOL Actually I have another type that I only had a few seeds for and they are almost ready. They are purple potted pole beans. Dawn sent me the seed a couple of years ago and I planted the remainder of them on a little t-pee. I haven't tasted them yet, but I will have to plant more because the vine is so pretty. I thought I had bought a pack after I got those, but if I did, it never made it to my seed stash, and I can't find them. I think it was Ferry-Morris seed, so I am going to check the seed racks later today. I planted 2 types of cucumbers, one pickling and one slicing. Both types have beautiful vines and no problems yet, but I found 2 squash bugs yesterday, so I guess the problems are beginning.....and dozens of white butterflies.

Thanks, dj! Small pots, mobility, yeah that was part of the reason. Also didn't have the space when I started, and I learned a valuable lesson about hot heads and cool feet--much like Clematis vines. And it's definitely not a competition. Always learning, experimenting and applying! I certainly learned that my NuMex Twilight grown in a slightly larger pot was at least 50% bigger than its sibiling, so I don't think you can overpot these plants. Gary, the real Peruvian Serlano is mild pepper and has a cherry/tomatoey flavor. Mine weren't the juiciest, and since it's my first year, I'm not sure if that's typical. The plant spent a lot of the season with curled up leaves, so it wasn't happy about something. The hot Peruvian Serlanos are probably between a Jalapeno and a Chiltepin for heat. Good flavor with some heat. I think the rules of the seed swap dictate no "John's Face Melter"-type hybrids, but I'll be happy to send you some seeds via PM. That plant is quite prolific and still has ripening peppers, even though it's started to cool off here in the PNW. --Byron.