Hi, Maureen! Thanks for the compliments; we do try to have a variety of plants, though we've only been gardening for ourselves for 3 years. My delphinium is a "Guardian Blue", and its first 2 flushes were much darker than the above photos. At its brightest it can be almost garish, but I do like it! I bought it from a nursery here in town (Longmont CO). I don't really know what conditions it's supposed to like; apparently they like their roots a bit tight? When my mom grew them the tag said to step on the dirt all around the plant after planting it, to make sure the dirt was tight around the root ball. Mine is growing in the worst dirt in my yard - very dense, fine grained clay. However, it gets plenty of water, and probably 10 hours of sun a day in the summer. Also, when it finishes a flush, I cut off the flower stalks, and cut back the ratty looking foliage, and it quickly regrows leaves and puts on new buds. Lime Sublime is a terrific plant; bright green glossy leaves, dense upright growth, constantly in bloom, blossoms last a good long time and don't really have an 'ugly' phase, no disease or bug problems (thrips seem to do very little damage), almost thornless, and very winter hardy. It has a nice scent, though mild. If anyone's in the market for a cream rose, we'd recommend it!

Hi Liz, Congratulations on your ability to grow citrus in your condo - they certainly seem to love your conditions, as is evident by their fruit yield, so by all means continue with your regimen! I don't see your pics from the Dropbox link. If you try Photobucket, you can hover over the picture and just copy and paste the html link into the body of your GW message. When you 'Preview Message', you should see your photo (just as we will). You ask a very interesting question about the appropriate time to uproot your citrus. One certainly should do so if you see actual decline in your tree's vigor, but you'll probably want to re-pot before you've reached this stage. And, as you are using a standard potting mix that's been amended with bark and perlite, I would argue that you're getting soil compaction with the resulting/dreaded perched water table (unless you've added a wick to the drain holes). So you're probably at just past prime time to re-pot - remember that for plants in a 511 mix, it's recommended to re-pot every couple or so years; therefore, your less free-draining mix will probably require more frequent changing (might now be a good time to consider re-potting into the gritty mix(?), as you'll be able to leave in the free-draining mix for 3-5 years or so). In regards to when to re-pot, I would recommend doing this just before your citrus are in a growth spurt. I wouldn't worry too much about whether you have fruit/flowers while doing this; especially for the Meyer, you'll probably have fruit of varying degree on the tree year-round, so this is unavoidable. Finally, I recall reading that you don't want to 'pot up' into too large a container, which could have the problem of retaining too much moisture. I suspect your tree isn't too large, so you should be able to get away with using an 18" diameter pot. And if you root prune every time you re-pot, you can get away with using the same sized container (this is how bonsai hobbyist can continue using the same small-sized pots indefinitely). Best of luck! Tim

Remove and store in ziplock bag in the fridge or for longer storage, blanch and freeze them. Dave

I just picked the last chile of the year for me. My year-and-a-half old red rocoto just gave me the last ripe pepper of the season. I brought her inside about a month ago and stuck her under a grow lamp. I will, however, have plenty of italian fryers in about six weeks as the carmen (a bulls horn variety) I'm overwintering just set a bunch of fruit.