Sue, thanks for the tip on Heritage Roses NW. I will check into that. Here is my list. I didn't include the climbers because I think I know how to place them. And this list doesn't include all the Austins I want to get and all the OGRs I want to get now that I have found this forum! LOL All of these roses are mostly from Heirloom which is local for me and RU (from Pat's suggestions). Amazing Grace Abraham Darby Ambridge Rose Bonica Bolero Brigadoon Cassie Cecile Brunner Courageous Desiree Elle Flutterbye Frederic Mistral Graham Thomas Hot Cocoa Jacqueline Du Pre Jude The Obscure Lady Mitchell Lavaglut Lavender Dream Lemon Spice Louise Clements Miss Dior Molineux Mystic Beauty Outta The Blue Pat Austin Peach Blossom Pegasus Pillow Fight Pink Knock Out Pretty Jessica QueenÂs London Child Reconciliation Roberto Capucci Sans Soucci Sharifa Asma St. Swithun Sunsprite Tamora Tess Of The DÂurbervilles Thornbury Castle Tournament Of Roses Well-Being I am putting together a list of roses I want to get for the future and will have to plan for those roses too. Wow, this is a big job! So I will have, like I said, a bunch of OGRs and some more Austins to add to my plan but I don't have that list finalized yet. I wanted to see how much space I have left before I order more. Oh, and all the roses from Heirlooms are band size. And the ones from RU are gallons. I am having a hard time making sure all these bands stay watered. I have planted some roses from Heirloom before and they did fine without potting them into gallons first before putting them in the garden. So I would like to plant these bands as soon as possible. Thanks for your help! Karen

Was really glad to see this post as just last week I was wondering the same thing. I'm fairly new to canning, only done tomatoes and strawberry jam in the past, and freezing which doesn't really count. So after discovering this forum and having a pretty good size garden this year(that's another story)I decided to do peaches. And this is how it went: Start BWB,start another pot to do rings and lids, sterilize jars,(find the right ones first) make fresh fruit bath for peaches, start another pot to blanch peaches(pour a glass of wine, hey I'm having fun now) disinfect sink, put ice and cold water to cool peaches (thinking I have a new 48 inch stove, how do you do this on a regular stove) okay now blanch peaches, first batch can't cut them and get the pit out without destroying them and definetly won't get 'halves' looks more like mush. no problem I'll put them in the fridge and do a cobbler tommrrow. Second batch. I decide to cut them into halve first, then blanch and peel, cool come out looking great (where did I put that glass of wine?)oh forgot to make syrup, get that going . BWB is getting low add some more water. Okay I think I'm ready to put into hot jars, but I think I'm doing a combo of a raw pack and a hot pack (if I have to I'll just put them into the fridge with all the other things I'm not sure of, still can't find the glass of wine, did I pour one?) put peaches in jars, pour hot syrup, check for bubbles, wipe rims, put on rings,(am I forgetting anything?)put jars into BWB set timer, pour another glass of wine and wait. Bingo timer goes off pull out jars, set on counter and hubby says 6 quarts? 5 hrs. How much per quart? I figure somewhere time included $26.00 per quart! But I sure did have fun!

I have several streaked hosta seedlings which overwintered in the ground from last year, but got nipped by a rabbit. One h.'Blue Lightning' seedling is promising and just now develops a scape which I want to use with pollen from large blues. Last winter I started in November to grow streaked hosta seedlings from seeds provided by Mr.Hosta of Land of the Giants. Here are those seedlings of h."Blue Lightning', 'Topo Gigio', 'Fickle Blue Genes' and 'Dorothy Benedict'. They are bigger than last year's already. I got last year a freebie 'Powder Keg' from LOTG but that hosta did not survive. I bought this year h.'Justice' at a Hosta Library auction. How do I like them? I do not know yet. The seedlings which will survive my culls will probably have some stabilized divisions, but it will be interesting. I am interested to create a streaked large blue one. Bernd This post was edited by berndnyz5 on Tue, Jul 2, 13 at 19:32

My husband makes the best french fries. He cuts the russet potatoes in rounds....doesn't peel them. Then he cuts them in sticks, so they are about the size and thickness of my little finger. He has a pot of oil, and he dumps them all in at once...which tends to cool the oil a bit, but when the oil reheats and they finish frying, it is like they have been fried twice, which is the real way to make french fries. You fry them, drain them, and then fry them again. They are lightly crunchy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside. I used to always cut my french fries length ways, but after seeing how he does it, I changed to his way. His still taste better than mine. I am another one who loves an electric skillet. I don't think I have ever fried potatoes in one, but I like frying chicken it better than I do using cast iron. And I have over 100 pieces of cast iron cookware. Or, did have. I have given a lot of it away.