Amna, I use those strawberry containers all the time, been doing so for 6 years now and never had a problem with them. Holes are fine, as well and my containers always go in in direct sun as well. Soil goes in, miracle grow, I don't fill it quite to the top, seeds go on soil. sprinkle some soil on top and press down to be sure it is good and moist. snap the cover down and out it goes. no tape no, baggies unless the containers are reused and the cover has finally broken off. As temps warm up I sometimes need to add vent holes to the top to get more water in. Covers come off the seedlings when the seedlings are really hitting the cover of the container. I have never worried about not enough head room with covers or with baggies on them and have never had a problem or any seedlings damaged from being a bit compressed with a cover or baggie. My hose is out back near the containers, so if they need some moisture, water is handy when needed. I am in MA as well, near the Nashua NH border and I don't sow my cosmos till mid April. to huge a risk of late frosts around MA that will get the tender seedlings. Cosmos are really hardy with early frost in the fall and will continue to bloom through those early frosts, but the tender seedlings will be history for you if they are zapped by late frost now. Picture 1 should be fine outside without the baggie. just be sure there are vent holes on the top. Don't leave the container inside the other one on the bottom. That will catch rain and could make the soil stay far too moist and soggy because the container will just sit in water. pic #2. looks fine. just be sure there are drainage holes in the bottom of the container and you have slits in the baggie for air to circulate and rain to get in. (hopefully we have seen the last of snow, sleet, freezing rain and ice for this year) Pic #3. looks like you used masking tape for labels. That won't last very long. it will come off when it gets wet from rain. You can cut up plastic covers from margarine, cottage cheese, sour cream, coffee, etc and use them for labels. you can use a deco paint pen to write with, that will last forever and put the tags inside the container. or use sliver foil tape as a label and write with paint pen. sharpies fade quickly when the heat and sun get on it. Be sure the containers have drainage holes in them, air holes in the top and when you put them outside, don't pile them on top of each other. Each one needs to have it's cover exposed to the elements completely. Some pics of my containers I have been using for 6 years A mix of those blue containers mushrooms come in, strawberry containers, take out containers, cottage cheese containers. I use anything that is at least 3-4 inches deep, but do not use gallon water jugs. I just find them far too awkward to use and I don't use tonic bottles either. We rarely drink any and the bottle return leaves no one with any to get them from. Fran

Ladies may I join you in this discussion? I am a young healthy looking 62. And today is my first visit here after looking up adrenaline I sure understand better now That's what I have going on MY NATURE'S PACE MAKER.working. Adrenaline After a stay in icu heart recently everyone finally agreed i am mot crazy.it was.my heart. The docs installed is a device catch my heart acting badly is a heart tracker like halter monitor. Under my chest muscles on top of my heart. I can cause it record what just happened.. iam write with excitment because your stories are all so familiar. These stories for me begin after mitral valve repair. 7 years ago. Basic problem ..unless the doc sees the heart behaving badly they deny the problem. All this time we never could catch it Last doc said bluntly if we dont see it didnt happen. You must to er Well recent at 230 am it woke me up, just as you have described. I went directly to the er They caught the serious thing! Arrithemia and more then two days in icu. Now meds have slowed my heart from 70 to 52 while docs decide what to do. Last night I realized I was having an adreilin rush. The same rush I went to a neurologist for help. Over a year and half. Often it also affect my skin. Goose bumps crawling feeling all day long! Well have I got news for him.I was not crazy about that either. my gp I visited last month just to say. I know you don't know what is wrong but I still got it. Knows too I sat in neros office two months ago ,,,same thing. I said dr i just want you know ME when I end up in er..and i need you. well it was er straight to icu. Home now with electrical issues. Last last night meds have my average at 52 bpm.it woke me. 2 3 am. I use my tricks to get back to sleep.as soon as felt sleep coming on the stomach feeling spread. It woke me up heart pounding.sweat .out of breath!!! Happened several times . then checked average heart rate on my Garmin. 48. Average 48 so i was probably lower. Maybe 45! My natural pace maker kicked in every time sleep lowered bpm and I was short on air. Natural pace maker? Adrenaline can't wait to see what was recorded on my device Thank you body! Now I think i know what as going on for long time hidden from doc view. Electric shock adrenaline style

MaryLu, I completely agree with your feelings about switching to the pellet stove vs continuing to burn the parlor stove. Here's why: I have both a Harman pellet stove (Accentra) and a Vermont Castings (Defiant Encore) wood stove. They are the ONLY sources of heat in our 160 yo, minimally uninsulated, farmhouse in northern NY. First: the pellet stove is much less work to fire and run. And it requires only a fraction of the cleaning necessary to keep your exhaust stack/chimney safe. Also produces almost insignificant amount of ashes over a whole winter. We burn 4 1/2 tons of pellets per year, and would hardly fill two large sheet rock mud buckets with ashes for the entire burning season. My woodstove produces enough ashes over the winter to fill a garbage can! Second: Although I am a very experienced wood burner with more than three decades of burning under my belt I worry a whole lot less about the pellet burner than I do the woodstove. Both stoves are correctly, and very safely installed (my DH and I are both former Vol. firefighters, so we are fire safety nuts). And even with a highly attended-to woodstove I have a low level of anxiety about it all the time. I never fuss about the pellet burner, though. Third: Fueling the pellet burner is a snap compared to a woodstove. My DH has back problems so I haul all the fuel (wood and pellet) into the house (4-5 tons of pellets, and 4 to 5 full cords of wood, every year) so I am very familiar with the physical effort required and the pellet burner wins, easily. Four: Your Harman stove will burn all day, or all night, with no need to add more fuel. You could go away for a very long Thanksgiving day visit and come back and find it's still putting out the same heat as when you left. The woodstove will have burnt down and need to be refired. Now, the only downside to a pellet burner vs a woodstove is that the pellet burner requires constant electricity to run. Ours is hooked up to a heavy duty uninterruptible power source (like for a large computer) so it will continue to operate for a short time in a power outage. Some people have big battery packs for extended use. And because it uses electricity, unlike a woodstove which heats by radiating, the pellet burner is effectively a "forced air" system so you have the downside of a continuous (or intermittent, depends on how you control it) stream of hot air, and the noise (though low) of the circulation fan and feed auger. Compared to the nearly silent operation of a woodstove, I find the pellet burner mildly more obtrusive. There is also the a small amount of fugitive dust from the pellets which is blown around by the circulation. The other thing about a pellet stove is that it is very convenient for the early and late season burning period when you need just a small amount, or a few hours of heat. We have been firing the pellet burner intermittently for about three weeks, but not kindled the woodstove, yet. The pellet burner is quick to heat, and simpler for small fires just to take the chill off. And one other note: the pellet burner has a much lower surface temperature compared to a woodstove, so I find it particularly comforting when I am chilled as I can safely snuggle right up to it, putting my hands on the top surface, for instance. It's kind of a rapid re-warmer, at least for me. And finally, although many people here seem to like the looks of the old parlor stove (I do, too), I find them messier and more problematic to burn than modern woodstoves or pellet stoves. If you, like I, get a substantial portion of your heat from the stove, it needs to be less of a decorative object and more a functional one because you have to fire it so often, with all the attendant smoke and mess that the old stoves create. Fortunately the Harman stove is also a handsome, though less late 19th century, style than the parlor stove. I think you will be happy (ier?) with the pellet stove. We have had the Accentra for two winters (starting on our third) and are much impressed by Harman's quality and unique technology. Ours, BTW, is installed with direct (from the outside) feed for the combustion air path so we are not pulling our heated air out of the building. I vote for the pellet burner! HTH, Molly

No 2 is an Ipomoea (Morning Glory family, which includes Moon Flower) of some description. The seed leaves are unmistakable. I don't think 3 looks much like Melissa officinalis, Lemon Balm, but if it is it will have a strong lemon scent when rubbed.