Hi, Yes, I do still have many to share. Please email me privately with your address and we can work out the shipping arrangements. Thanks.

I like Nastarana's idea of the walk. Makes it obvious what side is theirs and just what they need to maintain up too. I am redoing an area and have a similar issue, I am going to leave that 12" and then level my side with a low stack block wall. I have a section that is wider than the 12" behind one of our fenced gardens. I can maintain my side no problem and have gates. I do have a question for those in the know, if your neighbor has left themselves NO access other than trespassing across all of your property to maintain their fence, do you have to allow or should they purchase their own ladder? The bad neighbors will have their fence fall any old time, surprised it is still standing to be honest, and we have our own chainlink fence on our side. But the over watering towntown group has left themselves no way to access except thru our side I have lots of things planted on our side of the line, most by 2 or more feet so there is work room, just no way to reach it. That fence will probably be the first to fall because of the winds even though it is in better shape. (but only by a little bit) And is there anything that can be done if they leave the old concrete around where their fence was before? They built one guessing on the wrong line and rebuilt a new one more on their side but I have trip hazards all over on our side of the fence but I think mostly on their side of the property line.

Hi Susie - Thanks! I think it is not very common to get a red desert rose from seed. Most seedlings produce pink flowers. The parent plant was had red flowers and was grown from a cutting, so its caudex is not as impressive as those that are grafted or grown from seed. I am so excited to have a red one grown from seed!

Good comments Bill P. Thank you for your response. I guess I should explain a few things. First of all the genetics on every tomato plant are different. They are definitely not the same. The variations are small enough that they are called the same variety but still different. Second you can keep a plant alive for 100 years by cloning. When you clone, you take a healthy new shoot and you root it with healthy new roots. the old stem and old roots die but the new stem and new roots are young and fresh. So if you do this say every 6 months or every year depending on conditions you are all set. I believe for example the big money hybrids are grown from the idential two plants which are kept alive via cloning. Big Boys parents have been kept alive for almost 60 years. They do not grow new parents from seeds. That would actually give a different tomato. The same must be true of Jet Star and Supersonic and all the big names. I can only assume that it is true for Big Zac. If not true then the seeds produced every year will be different. This probably also requires them to make say 1000 clone plants for the male and 1000 clone plants for the female before growing them out and crossing them to make seeds. A very big job. OK lets say one plant in 10 of a certain variety produces big tomatoes without using the special techniques of the Giant Tomato growers. In other words we know it has good genetics just right to grow big. Now say we clone that plant and make 10 copies to grow out. It makes more sense to me to grow out 10 clones of a known good plant then to grow out 10 different plants from 10 seeds. In which case I will really have only one plant with the big potential. Two problems arise. One I dont know which of the 10 might be good. Second I am spinning my wheels on 9 plants that do not have the correct potential. Besides I see nothing wrong with trying to keep those genetics alive. Maybe it did well for you in hot Texas, and now it comes up to New England. Well maybe it will not perform as well but then maybe it will do better. I have been in the Giant Veg Forum. Not much participation there. Only getting a few posts in a year. Anyway Bill, this is a hobby. I get bored sometimes. This seems like a fun project to give me some fun these last few years of life. I am growing tomatoes anyway. so I want to have a little more fun with the project. I do not expect or even dream of growing a world record. But I want to learn and and have some fun. I will say that I have some Big Zac seeds and I will grow some out next year. But I really hope I can link up with someone with a good plant this year and keep it alive over the winter. I probably prefer something which is not Big Zac and probably not grown for a contest using Giant tomato techniques. I would probably prefer one that just grew a big one of about 2 pounds without any special growing technique. But I will not turn down anything that is offered. I will try any and all attempts. That will provide more information on if this is a good idea or not. I am convinced it is a worthy idea. But what is saved must be worthy of saving. I want to find something worthy of saving and then save it.