I recieved this reply from rareseeds.com and they gave me the following messages: 1/1/08 "Michael, We only sell ground cherry seeds for $1.50 a packet or 1/4 oz for $7.50. Thanks for letting us know I will go to the site and see for myself. Pam" Then on 1/2/08 "Mike, I looked up the link and Jere also checked this out. After reading the responses to this guy from other forum members, Jere decided that he wouldn't worry to much about it. Also, the date is pretty old, almost a year. But, Jere said to tell you thank you very much for your concern about this. There are shysters everywhere it seems. Don't think this guy will get very far with knowledgeable forum members. By the way, we also have a forum. www.idigmygarden.com. Love to have you. Pam" I thought I would post this to prove it once and for all!! ~mike

I was reading some of these stories to my hubby tonight and he reminded me of our neighbor Jen's story and I decided I needed to share it with the stupid garden tricks... Our neighbor across the street has been divorced for about three years or so..and let his lawn go to pot as a result..he is a really nice guy, but lost interest when his family moved out. About 6 months ago, he fell in love with a girl about ten years younger than him, she was just 19...and she moved in. He aplogized all over the place to everyone that would listen about his robbing the cradle and that she was so young, but begging everyone to give them a chance and accept it because he loved her. She is JUST 19 and niave....but quickly we learned to love her too..she is a big sweetheart, even if a bit naive sometimes. Late this spring, when my hubby and I pulled in the driveway she followed behind us on foot and asked what we thought of what she had done to the yard. She had pulled and piled his mountains of weeds. I am not kidding in the back yard, the weeds were taller than cars and unused lawn equipement had sat there for years and they had grown around them while he grieved his lost marriage. What was once a nice yard had become an eyesore. She had done a ton of work and we were amazed..she said her hands had blistered even with gloves because the weeds in the back were as thick as saplings. She then asked if we had any weed killer and a sprayer she could borrow. My husband impressed with her work so far said he sure did..it was even already mixed up and it was extra good stuff. He walked with her to our garage and got it for her, and I went in the house. In the meantime, my daughter called and we began idle chit chat, I heard my hubby come in and sit in front of the tube and never thought a thing of it. I talk on the phone and walk about the house and found myself near a window. I looked out, and there was that Jen out there spraying her yard away in the front. I never thought a thing about it, admiring her determination at such a young age with the lost yard. Then she happened to turn towards me and I gasped when I saw which sprayer she had. My husband had given her the roundup sprayer...assuming she was killing the big weeds around the fence and dead lawn equipment in the back that she had been complained about..but instead she was spraying her front yard randomly. I quick hung up the phone and hollared at him to go stop her. He felt terrible...she was mortified and felt young and stupid..she didn't know there was such a thing as roundup..she thought it would only kill weeds,not grass..so she was spraying every weed she saw in the front yard. My husband told her to water quickly and see what happened..he felt terrible that he had misunderstood what she wanted. He always uses granular on the lawn weeds, not liquid so he was not even thinking that way. About two weeks later, these HUGE brown smiley faces of grass began appearing in the lawn. We walked over to apolgize to them but they were laughing bout it. Being just 19 and silly..every weed she had seen, she said..GOTTCHA and after she spritzed it with "weed killer" she drew a smiley face around it... it wasn't bad enough she had sprayed weeds in the grass with roundup but she had drawn prety faces to announce she was in power now....there were dozens of dead grass smiley faces all over the front lawn for passerbys to see. My husband couldnt even look each time we left home. He felt partly responsible. I just chucked..what else can you do? :)

LOL.. Nice to hear from you again m8. I am just sitting it at the livingroom window everyday and moving it at night to where it sleeps..lol The very young and non established pods fell off and some of the leaves BUT the big pods which are full size have a good hold onto the plant! there are 22 of them so i will get the seeds out of them for next years growing. I think i may have gave it too much tomato feed last week as i used a different thing to put the water into? What an ideot.."Hit me a slap" I put 20ml into 1 litre of water instead of 20ml into 9 litres so hope it doesnt hurt it too much? Time will tell.!!! Cya's later Arthur.

Friedag, the only work I have on Hereward is Peter Rex's Hereward: The Last Englishman. It's history rather than fiction, and (it's been a while since I read it) demolishes the legend that "the Wake" means the 'Watchful" or something like that. Wake or Wac was apparently a family name. As for other historical novels, here are some without organizing them much in time: The Ivory Mischief by Arthur Meeker. Two aristocratic sisters in 17th cen. France. Not my period or place, but so exceedingly well done I've read it several times. Everything in it is from diaries of the period, and not a single event is invented. Quite fine. The Trees. The Fields. The Town. A trilogy by Conrad Richter about the settling of the American Midwest. Sweet Will. The Cleopatra Boy. A House of Women. by Eric Malpass. A fine trilogy about Shakespeare. Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles. A southern woman, not rich, during the American Civil War. She's written several others, good, but this one really stayed with me. The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout. (who also wrote The Shootist, made into John Wayne's last movie). I stumbled across this book, and it is quite good--grim, but good. Set in the American Midwest in early days of settlement of the prairie. I'll look for others by him. Pretty much anything by Mari Sandoz--Indians mostly (Crazy Horse is my favorite, one based on her father, Old Jules.) A.B. Guthrie series (all independent) on the settlement of the west. The Big Sky. The Way West. These Thousand Hills. Anything by Alan Furst--you probably know these--astonishingly well done novels set just before or during WW II--lesser people caught up in the war--nobody famous. I have limited shelf space, but I keep all of his. Flanders by Patricia Anthony. I don't know how or why this astonishing novel of WWI fell so fast into obscurity, but everyone I've recommended it to has been knocked out. And hard to imagine it is written by a woman. WW I has never really called to me, but this novel is deeply powerful. Maurice Druon's series on 13/14th cen. French kings, called Les Rois Maudit. The Accursed Kings, the first being The Iron King. It's being reissued in paperback after long being unavailable. George R.R. Martin (The Game of Thrones author) has said it was always his inspiration. Druon bends the facts slightly--going for the historically unaccepted, like the curse of the Templars--but it's very good reading. Nasty people, but good reading. And another Viking-- Meadowland by Thomas Holt, a tale within a tale--Varangian guard in Byzantine Empire, and the story told of Leif Erikson's settlement in NA. No need to mention Mary Renault, I'm sure. The queen of fiction of Ancient Greece. Awen by Susan Mayse, early medieval Wales. Good, but again has fallen into obscurity. And for those who really like American history, Allan W. Eckert some years ago wrote a series on the settlement America, beginning with The Frontiersman. Eckert says he has invented nothing, not even dialog, that everything comes from memoirs and diaries of the periods. There are copious footnotes, but they read like novels. And most people know of Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth. Peder Victorious. Their Father's God. What's unique about these books on the Norwegian settlement of the Great Plains is that Rolvaag wrote them in Norwegian and then they were translated into English. The first is the best known, and perhaps the best of the three. If I think of more that I've omitted, I'll post. Happy reading everyone!