Probably too late for pumpkins - I don't know what zone you are in but they take a long time to mature. Tomatoes - way to late to plant from seed, but if you can find some earlier maturing ones at your local nursery, and plant very soon you might get some before the first frost. Peas - like the cold spring, by the time they started emerging the summer heat would be setting in, and they would die - unless you waited until maybe August to plant, then they would be maturing as the temps were cooling down again in September. If I were you, I would find things with DTM (days to maturity) of less than 60 days (Bush Beans and Summer Squash are good examples of very easy to grow, quickly maturing items). Hope that helps!

I'm out for this year due to the drought here in the Southeast. I am just a small backyard grower that sells at a tiny farmers market in a neighboring city. I mostly grow stuff that does well for me in my yard, a lot of ornamentals, some herbs, veggie starts, a pretty big mix because the customer's tastes change throughout the season. The drought and high heat really did a number on me last summer and this summer is predicted to be worse, much worse. Now they have very tight watering restrictions in place to save as much water as possible for drinking ($1000 fine the first time you're caught using public water to water your garden, water shut off the second time!!!!!). They now measure the amount of available water in days rather than months. Needless to say, most people are not buying plants. Many local nurseries and growers have gone out of business. Some of them lost everything including their land and homes in the process. It is a sad sad situation. I can keep the stock I have now alive by hauling water up from a creek til it goes dry. I can spend the year making adjustments to my display and building more birdhouses (reliable sellers). In other words, get my act together. But selling doesn't look good until it rains enough to lift these restrictions. With gas getting more expensive, the economy tanking, it does look like a tough ride this next summer but I believe I will be perfectly situated to jump in once things turn around - I may have no competition when that day comes.

Do not mean to tempt. I go there to give away some of my excess Adeniums and for some reason I always end up w something in my car home. At least I do not have to pay for them. The object of the ordeal is really to down size. Man I wish I could just send them off to everyone on Gardenweb. The owner of this Nursery does shipping all over and he told me that I did not need a Permit to order from the U.S., but I would require a Phyto Cert. from the exporter. I wonder if you can receive plants from here (Canada) also without a Permit and just a Phyto. Cert.? Rick

It's a perfectly nice kitchen. Path of least resistance. It's neutral now. Just add color. Paint the walls (google "paint that goes with orange wood" and you will find a ton of suggestions). Add colorful tile for a backsplash and then some small colored appliances. Put a little fold up bistro table against the window with a bench with colorful seat cushion, you'll want at least something to sit on in there. I had one of those fold out step seats in my tiny kitchen, served multiple purposes . . . Put some colorful plates or art along the sofit. Find a colorful, slip resistant area rug for the floor. Colorful curtains. The floor is the only element I would splurge and rip out and redo if needed. It looks like it has seen better days, but I can't tell for sure . . . You could go for some elaborate ceramic tiles but again, why spend a bunch of time and money if not needed. But something terra cotta or grey matching tones from the counter would be nice. Depends on your style. I could see going earthy Spanish/Mexican jewel tone color palette in there, change out the pulls to black wrought iron . . . but again, depends on your style. You could go all green, spring palette and ferny too . . . My kitchen is sort of English cottage with some olde Dutch kitsch thrown in . . . same cabinets, nice marbled flooring. Some day if I'm ever lacking in projects I'd like to replace my white countertops. At least yours don't show dirt like my white ones do. At least you have some color with the counters. Start with that if you like it enough to live with it. Just a side note, I had a small counter to the right of my stove in a very small kitchen. It was pretty useless as a counter space. I would have rather had a larger expanse of counter to work with. It's a tradeoff in a small kitchen. I agree with Bbstx, live with it a while before totally tearing it out . . . you'll know better how you cook and want to use the space. Plus, there are tweaks and there are complete redos, all depends on time frame and budget. I have a tweak budget, which means my kitchen will get little hacks from time to time. If I had a long time frame and tear-out budget, I'd enlarge the kitchen utilizing porch space and reconfigure a glass conservatory for a porch. But since we plan on moving when we retire or at least getting a summer cottage, our money is going into saving for that. So it depends on your plans for the current house . . .