Hi Digs, Well, I am surprised to see you post about placing an order after I wrote to ask you for the information in order to place an order myself . Is that what spurred you to do it ? LOL !! I might be interested but most of the hostas you have listed are small or minis with only one or two mediums and I am interested more in large or giant hostas .....but .....I will say yes tentatively and wait and see what happens. Signet

Hi Digs, Unfortunately there are only five on your list that I don't already have. :(

Thanks, Diane! Have you posted pictures of your cottage anywhere? I'd love to see it. Next trip to the paint store I will get some larger samples of a few of these reds. I'd also picked out Sultan's Palace among the pinker-toned dark reds, so it will be good to compare that to orangey-er reds. I have not ruled out yellow; I got a sample pot and painted a board with a match of Ralph Lauren's Chesapeake Sunset, which is FABULOUS. When I've narrowed this down to a smaller number of choices, I plan to paint large parts of the side of my garage that I see from the back rooms of my house and live with them for several months before committing. We're pretty close to the season that gets too hot for good painting (and too buggy to have my storms/screens down for even a day), so painting the whole house won't happen till fall at the earliest, and maybe next spring. I have plenty of time to make a decision.

Now is a good time to think about next year's plans because it's early November here in NH and while I have some Asian greens, I haven't been cooking with them like I thought I would so that's wasted space. I should have fresh carrots but had a germination problem this year, possibly because I didn't keep things watered. I need to check the date I planted bulls blood beets because I don't think there has been much beet development. Leeks were planted late so they aren't very big. Lettuce is still good shows some frost damage. Kale self seeded and is overwhelming the space in the high tunnel. I don't have parsnips or Gilfeather turnips this year. Why not! Doing bed cleanup to plant hardneck garlic, I discovered two overlooked zucchinis and they were covered with squash bugs. Yikes! Broccoli in the high tunnel is slowly developing but I'm not sure the heads will get any bigger. I need to check the planting date on these, too. A couple of weeks can make a big difference. Although my Great Aleppo Pepper Adventure was mostly a flop (lots of pepper but not the flavor I wanted), I ended up discovering a whole new world of peppers. Buran bell peppers were big winners, very productive plus great flavor. Urfa biber are slightly hot which is just hot enough for us. Zolotisty yellow bells have a fabulous flavor. No more Ace peppers for me. I also got peppers mixed up during harvest so I'm not sure if it was Carmen that turned a beautiful dark red with a wonderful sweet flavor but I've been growing it for several years and will continue to have one or two plants. Yesterday I weeded the two new asparagus beds. The beds themselves are good but I have Creeping Jenny in our weedy lawn that was creeping into the bed.