2 years ago I drilled 1-2 holes, about 1-1.5 inches diameter (size and qty depend on what you have available for tools) in a hanging plant container that I kept from the year before. I then planted a store bought tomato plant and carefully placed the plant through the hole and left the root system in some plant soil at the bottom of the container. Basically get the plant through the hole and back fill with dirt. when you fill the top of the container with, say basil or parsley you can get multiple crops and the top crop will keep the soil from drying out prematurely. Just try it. You can keep the containers for years and use them on the patio. It maybe precarious with larger tomatoes but works great with grape to plum sizes. As they say plant'em if you got'em. T's

Looks almost like a chair in "Antique Trader" price book, chair is called Missionstyle (Arts & Crafts movement) book is from 2010 & price listed was $570. That is a very nice chair & I would fix it properly. Not saying your chair is worth that much, you need to clean it up, see if it's oak. Go to library & look in Antique furniture book to see what seat looked like. AS to age I'm sure someone can help on that but I sat on 1 similar to that in my granpa's ins. office 70 yrs ago, seat was dark brown leather, I felt very important , suppose that is why I remember it so well.& I think it had been there a long time. book mentions 1 from 1900 as Mission. The piece under the arms that curves out I haven't seen before. Will be very nice chair when cleaned up!

Melissa, Remember that you can get cardboard tubes from holiday wrapping paper too, and each roll can be cut into many little segments for seed starting. Are you wanting a meaty beefsteak to use as a slicer on sandwiches? If you are, I can name a few, but I need to be sure you want a beefsteak versus a slicer. There's a difference, especially with older open-pollinated beefsteaks. The older beefsteaks often come in sort of lumpy and mis-shapen incarnations, particular from early-season flowers that often come as fused blossoms/megablooms in cool weather and give very oddly shaped tomatoes that are hard to use because by the time you cut out the odd lobes that have doubled back and folded over, you've lost a lot of potentially usable tomato flesh. If you want a more standard round or oblate slicer that isn't a lobed, I tend to refer to those more as slicers than beefsteaks. I happen to love beefsteaks for their flavor, but find them frustrating at times because they are so lumpy, bumpy and mis-shapen. Jen, I am very careful about trades that involved saved seed. If people aren't growing their plants in proper isolation, properly screen-caged to prevent cross-pollination or bagging blossoms, then you never know what you're going to get. Some of the time you get exactly the tomato you're expecting, for example, but other times you get a mutt that is not something you wanted. That wouldn't matter to me with something like zinnias or green beans, but with tomatoes, I am picky and want exactly what I want, not a crossed surprise variety. I guess it is just because I am so darned picky about my tomatoes. Yes, you can build up a great supply via trades and seed exchanges, but if you are a garden control freak like I am, you might not like the surprises you get. I've never gotten badly crossed seed from anyone on this forum, but have gotten crossed seeds from other seed trades. Dawn

Kitty, I understand you no longer feel hurt... it was a passing moment worthy of note - don't worry about how you felt then or feel now. At any rate, I was out at a restaurant Sunday. As an acquaintance joined me, she was handed a flower by the staff. I'd already been seated, no flower. Suddenly, the staffer gave me a rose, too, wishing me a happy Mother's Day. "But I'm not a mother,", I immediately thought, and wanted to hand it back. But I'm not one for a scene, and besides it was actually quite pretty. So I thanked the waitress, and after she left, I noted, "ah, I guess being a cat - mom must count?!" (I had a hysterectomy at age 31, and while I regretted being childless when my brother had two daughters, I'm fine about this now. For me, Mother's Day is simply remembering my own mother, and acknowledging the full and largely-happy life she had lead.)