Pretty good job Rosemarie. You can use actions in programs like Photoshop, and Photoshop Elements (very bare bones version of Photoshop) and Paint Shop Pro. My dad's Dell came with PSP and I know some computers and cameras come with Photoshop Elements bundled with it. Look around in your computer or your house and see if you ever got one of those for free. BTW you're welcome...I'm glad you were able to learn something. I can't tell you what the plants are in your pics, but maybe I can help with the pictures. ;-) jadegarden, The reason that the pics may have been blurry is because of the PB resizing. When you resize an image it loses sharpness. Which is why I recommend to sharpen your image once you resize it. If you allow for the image host to resize your pics you lose control over how clear they are. sjv78736, Check out the link below...if it isn't clear or a little complicated I will go ahead and do a shorter tutorial of it. Here's a link to a tutorial I found on the net. http://www.photo.net/learn/resize/ It seem like a lot of text (or complicated) but I think if you read it once you'll have a very good understanding of resizing and displaying your images on the web.

I saved this old thread from when I first started visiting Garden Web - I don't remember what forum it was on. After my post, Spike (the venerable ur-webmaster) pulled the thread. I never knew if it was my fault, the last straw. That also happened to me on another thread. I felt like the little kid who hammered a nail into a telephone pole just as a huge blackout occurred, and thought he caused it. Claire (Note the date of the first post.) ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by Ted - Maine - 4b on Sat, Apr 1, 00 at 18:59 I woke up this morning and went out to check on my primroses. To my horror, they were nearly all gone! After checking around the bed for a while, I discovered two *enormous* yellow slugs slinking away. At six inches long, they're about twice the size of any slug I've seen before! Could these be banana slugs? I've heard horror stories about the way they gobble up perennials. I thought they only bothered gardeners in the Pacific NW, but with global warming, we've been having some unusually mild winters lately in the Northeast. Maybe we're due for an invasion of banana slugs? ----------------- Follow-Up Postings: RE: Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: Kerry on Sat, Apr 1, 00 at 21:03 OH dear, they are spreading, these slugs are usually huge and are a puke green to very dirty yellow looking and have dark green to brown spots on them. There are many ways to get rid of them, on it to take you salt shaker out with you to the garden and sprinkle them liberally, when i say liberally i mean it! They have a tendancy to slough off a layer of slime that has been salted and get away, those little buggers, another way, a little more wierd is to put cheap beer in a wider saucer, they LOVE beer and will go into the saucer and drown, and the beer kills them anyway if the drowning doesn't. So keep up the fight, and I hope you win, by the way i heard sprinkling salt around the area keeps them annoyed also. good luck, Kerry ------------------- RE: Delicious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: Karen in Toronto - 6a on Mon, Apr 3, 00 at 12:07 Ted and Kerry, since you know that beer attracts slugs, you might be interested in learning that salt, while killing the banana slugs, also makes a very good seasoning for them. While visiting a friend down south(Leamington, Ontario), we had a very tasty meal of banana slugs, dredged in coarse sea salt, dipped in beer batter, and deep-fried. They taste kinda like zucchini. PS - the above story is not true. I don't eat deep-fried food. PPS - Good one, Ted!! --------------- RE: Delicious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: Ted - Maine - 4b on Mon, Apr 3, 00 at 16:36 I like the "coarse sea salt" touch. Also, it stands to reason they *would* taste like zucchini . . . ----------------- RE: Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: chris on Tue, Apr 4, 00 at 18:52 Hi, just a brief note, don't go haywire with that salt! I did last year. It killed the slugs. it also killed my lettuce, all of it. I have heard vinegar is another way to get rid of them, however don't know the results on lettuce! ick. Slugs are my most favorite enemy now. Who'd ever think I'd hate a bug? mollusk, whatever, that much! ------------------- RE: Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: Nancy - PNW on Wed, Apr 5, 00 at 0:24 If you have kids they can be a great help in slug correction. I invented the "Slug-a-pult" for their removal. It consists of a slender bamboo rod, as long as the person is tall. Secure the slug onto the pointed end, then carefully lift it up and back, so that by whipping the bamboo forward, the slug is flung 100 yards or so. Kids enjoy the competition of seeing who can fling their slug the farthest. There may be a problem if you have neighbors. ----------------------- RE: Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: Nadine NY5 on Wed, Apr 5, 00 at 7:42 Vinegar with lettuce sounds like instant salad. Add some olive oil, and you're all set! ---------------------- RE: Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: Jan - 7 on Wed, Apr 5, 00 at 21:14 LOL!!!! But seriously, there's a product called Snarol, a powder, I used it last year on the strawberries because the slugs were eating them.. It had to be re-applied after rain. Also, I was told (but never tried) that slugs hate pain, and you can create a "barrier" by spreading that gravel sold for fish-tanks around your plants. ------------------- RE: Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: The Slug - 6a on Thu, Apr 6, 00 at 12:09 You people kill me. Signed, The Slug ----------------------- RE: Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: Beverly VA N 5a6b - Shenandoah Valley on Fri, Apr 7, 00 at 0:32 Just stumbled on this web page that you all may find interesting. It recommends killing slugs with vinegar. Here is a link that might be useful: Slugs and Vinegar ------------------------ RE: Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: Rhonda - 7 on Fri, Apr 7, 00 at 22:04 I had to smile when I read this, the only memory I have of San Francisco I have is one of the huge banana slugs in a Japanese botanical gardens there. Luckally we didn't have them in Atascadero, where I grew up. Thanks for the memory. Rhonda -------------------- RE: Voracious banana slugs in the northeast! Posted by: Claire - MA 6b on Fri, Apr 7, 00 at 22:13 Banana slugs can also be dried for future culinary use. I find the easiest way to dry them is to hang them from the branches of any smallish tree. If you choose the brightest yellow slugs, you get a good facsimile of a golden chain tree with the slugs dangling down. When they're fully dried, you can harvest them whenever you need a quick, nutritious meal. Claire

Gary, I knew if anything was going on in the research world in our state, you'd know about it. I look forward to seeing the results from the Kerr Center's research. Carol, I knew that grafting robots existed, but had never seen one. Wasn't that amazing? Now, if only they'd create a robot we all could afford that would travel up and down the rows of our gardens pulling weeds. Jay, I figured in anyone in the heirloom tomato world was experimenting with grafting, you'd know who it was and what they were doing and what results they were seeing. I don't think nematodes will survive your cold winter temps? And, I certainly hope we are right in believing that. I, too, would assume your nematode-infested plant was infested when you bought it. I've always wondered if nematodes could be brought into a garden in infested seedlings, and I guess they can. It probably wouldn't have happened in "the old days" when we were kids and soil fumigants were used so much more than they are today (and even in some home gardens back then). Jo, First of all, hooray for the rain! We had a very light sprinkle here early this morning but not the heavier rain that some of y'all have had sometime since midnight. I have toyed with the idea of grafting for a couple of years, but haven't had a real reason to try it, other than curiosity. As I was thinking about your nematode issue there, I finally asked myself what I would do if I had nematodes in my soil, and the quick answer was that first I'd grow in containers but then, secondly, that I'd try grafting so I could grow endless numbers of varieties without spending a king's ransom to fill up 100 to 200 very large containers. I was trying to think of an easy way to make a chamber that would be high humidity for those first few days and I came across a thread on the Tomato Forum where one of the posters used an aquarium placed upside down over the young grafts and just lifted it a few times a day to mist for humidity. We have one of DS's old aquariums in the garage, so that would work for me. I think I'd leave the aquarium upright and put either a plexiglass or plastic sheeting cover over the top of it because I'm such a klutz that I'd likely drop the aquarium onto the grafted plants and smash them all to smithereens if I had to lift it several times a day in order to mist the air. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Grafting Tomatoes

I assume an outdated house in disrepair would only sell quickly and for over asking, if it was priced very low and/or in an area without much to choose from. My home was just a standard cookie-cutter 80s ranch, 1400 square feet on .20 acre lot. 5 houses were for sale on my street at the same time -- ouch...some the exact same model. The market is flooded and there is a ton to choose from in the price range. But almost everything comparable was outdated and didn't show well. There are also a ton of foreclosure's and short sales that are priced lower, giving buyers a chance to 'get a deal' that I had to compete with. I watched Designed To Sell, House Hunters, Property Virgins, and Unsellables constantly for months leading up to us putting our house on the market. I took what I learned and just made simple changes for paint, decor, etc. We did a cheap redo of our kitchen to get rid of the original cabs and we put in ***gasp*** Corian counters, haha. Buyers loved seeing solid surface after every other house in our range had laminate. Our Realtor is a top agent in the area for over 30 years and she was very concerned that it would not appraise for the offer that our buyer gave. There were no comparables in the area that were priced near as high. We priced a little high, knowing that we'd probably get lower offers -- never dreamed we'd get an offer for over asking. But every single person that saw our home wanted to buy it. Staging can make a huge difference. It did for us! I really think the only reason it did appraise was because we were there and kind of 'made friends' with the woman who did the appraisal.