Hi RiverHendrix , Please take a look at my list, and see if anything interests you. I am interested in your: Wild Arugula Claytonia Watercress Hamburg Parsley Root Pak Choi Lacinto Kale Ruby Lettuce Saltwort ...and would also be interested in multiple trades of some of these. Thanks for looking. -Tina / kilngod Here is a link that might be useful: Kilngod's trade list

Perhaps onion maggot. See link below Here is a link that might be useful: onion maggot

I passed up a chance to buy some cloves of this today and am wondering if I made a mistake. Is it much use for cooking/salad/whatever? I grow regular garlic and shallots and just didn't know if this was worth tackling. My local market was offering sacks with maybe four or five cloves for $6. They were from a local organic farm so I know they weren't treated to prevent sprouting. Did I goof?

Marcy, The 'shutting down the watering' issue is a huge one here. Most of the gardeners I know personally here in Love County have red clay. Once it dries out, you cannot water it enough to keep everything flourishing. So, first of all, you can never let it get completely dry or future rainfall/water just rolls off the soil and doesn't soak in. Then, there's the added dilemma of having a bad grasshopper year. If you have the only garden spot for, let's say 2 or 3 miles, once all the pastures are dry and brown, the hoppers flock to a green garden. So, how much money will a person spend to create a green oasis for grasshoppers? There have been at least 3 times I've given up and quit watering....2003 (less than 19" of rainfall that year), 2006 (18 months deep into drought and rainfall) and 2008 (think I gave up in mid-June of that year and the real local diehards gave up July 1st. It was their first time to give up and let drought have their garden in several decades of gardening). I base the decision to cut off watering based on how much the garden is producing. If it is producing heavily, I can justify spending a lot of money to water because we're getting lots of produce. If it is not producing heavily, I can't justify it. And, yes, saying "I'm done and I'm not going to water anymore" just kills me. It really does. This year, we have had adequate rainfall for the landscape. So, the only watering I really have to do is for the veggie garden and Maddie's Peter Rabbit garden. Can't let the heat take Peter's plants!) Based on that, I think I can justify watering through at least early July. If we go 3 or 4 weeks without rain, though, I'll have to stop watering the veggie garden and start watering the landscape area around the house and the detached barn/garage to keep the clay soil from shifting/cracking too much and damaging the house's foundation. In the years I had to stop watering the veggie garden, that's why I did it....to redirect the water to the foundation area. In the years I quit watering, we were in a prolonged drought where there was not good deep soil moisture. Due to last year's near-record 50-something inches of rain here, we still have good deep soil moisture and that makes all the difference. So, I think I can keep watering another couple of weeks before I have to ask 'should I keep on watering'? Another factor in our favor is that it is expected to be a very, very active tropical storm/hurrican season. That gives us a somewhat higher than average chance of having rain pushed up our way by storms off the Texas/Louisiana coast. I can keep watering if I have hope rain may be coming. In those hot, dry summers when it seems rain isn't going to fall again until fall, there's a point where a huge water bill arrives, and I look at it and gasp, and say "OK, I'm done". Dawn