^^^ Hahaha...I once had to buy eggs at the market while my girls were molting, I brought them home and made a point to show the eggs to the girls to remind them what they looked like. Laying started up again shortly thereafter. :) Well...we checked both incubators and candled the eggs we could see into last night. A lot of them were clear, especially the Polish eggs. :( But I don't see my Polish ladies getting much action from my roos, the dumb boys! Other eggs have chicks, but I could not tell if they were alive or not, and how fully formed they are. No peeping or activity yet from any of the eggs, but they aren't due to hatch until beginning at 8PM Saturday night. If none of these hatch, I don't know what to think...I know that both of my roo boys are getting their job done and I don't think they have fertility issues, they are healthy fellas. We did change locations for the incubators this year, to my dining room table, in a corner of a room away from windows and doors to help protect from drafts. I THOUGHT I had a great spot, but if this batch doesn't work I'm going back to putting the darned things in the kitchen. :( On top of everything else, we are having weird weather here since yesterday, supposed to continue until Tuesday--wind, rain/hail, and tornadoes, of all things! If the power goes out, I have my broody hen contingency plan...Bear, Splash and Blue are all broody and would get to sit on the eggs. :) We checked the cam last night and have it all set up and ready to go, if hatching begins we'll fire it up and I'll notify everyone. Time will tell! Velvet !:>

I've have about narrowed my list down. These are the tomatoes I am growing. Approx 4000 I will only be planting two of each in my garden the rest will be sold at the Midlands plant and flower show in Columbia. Abe Lincoln reg leaf Ammana Orange Amish Gold Amish Paste Ananas Noire Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Anna Russian Arkasas Traveler Akansas Marvel Aunt Ruby's Green Azoychka Banana Legs Basinga Beefsteak Black Cherry Black from Tula Black Krim Blondkopfchen Blue Ridge Mt Box Car Willie Brandy Wine Suddath Strain Chadwick Cherry Cherokee Chocolate Cherokee Purple Copia Costoluto Genovese Creole Cuostralee Dad's Barber Paste Dad's Sunset Dagma's Perfection Dr Carolyn Dr Wyches Yellow Druzba Earl of Edgecombe Eva Purple Ball Evergreen Flame (Hillbilly) German Johnson German Red Strawberry Gold Medal Golden Pineapple Green Grape Henderson's Pink Ponderosa Ildi Isis Candy Kellog's Breakfast Kentucky Beefsteak Lemony Lillians Yellow Little Lucky Luck Cross Lumpy Red Manyel Marianna's Peace Max's large Green Nepal Old German Orange Strawberry Orange Russian Paul Robeson Peppermint Persimon Prudens Purple Russo Sicilian Toggeta Rutgers Sandul Moldavan Soldacki Spears Tenn Green Sun Gold Super Choice Super Snow White Tappy's Finest Uncle Mark Bagby Wapsipinicon White Beauty White Tomesol Wild Cherry Williams Stripe Winsall Wolfords Wonder Yellow Ruffled Zogola

Chandra, As someone else already said, wait and see what you get in the swap. I bet there will be a variety of colors. And, to echo what Dorothy said, in our climate, it gets too hot too early for the shelling peas to give us enough of a harvest to make growing them worthwhile. Snap peas provide a big harvest most years. (Last year, with only Sugar Snap and Super Sugar Snap planted, I harvested 35 lbs. over about a 3 to 5 week period, and filled up one section of the freezer with them. I have been growing, "an edible rainbow" in my garden, ever since reading several of the books in Rosalind Creasy's Edible Rainbow Gardening series in the late 1990s or early 2000s. To add to what you already have, there's also these: CARROTS: White: White Satin, White Belgian, Snow White, Lunar White Red: Atomic Red Yellow: Jaune Obtuse Du Doubs LETTUCE: Yellow: Australian Yellow Green/Red Speckled: Flashy Trout Back, Forellenschuss For The Funniest Lettuce Name Ever: Drunken Woman RADISHES: Yellow: Helios Black winter type: Round Black Spanish, Long Black Spanish Other winter types (and their color is in their name): China Rose, Chinese Green, Chinese Red Meat PEAS: For what it is worth, my experiences are like Dorothy's in that shelling types do not produce enough peas to make growing them worthwhile. We get too hot too early for them to have a chance to make many peas. By contrast, the edible podded peas gave me 35 lbs. of snap peas last year. Peas in interesting colors: Yellow: Opal Creek Yellow, Golden Sweet, Golden India Edible Pod Pea Blue, dwarf: Desiree Dwarf Blauwschokkers Blue, pole: Blauschokker Podded Pea Pink: "Spring Blush" BEETS: White: Albino BEANS: Yellow: Soleil Filet Purple Roma Type: Sequoia LONG BEAN: Chinese Red Noodle Chinese Mosaic (pinkish-red mottled) EGGPLANT: Green: Apple Green, Lao Green Stipe, Louisiana Long Green Dark Purple: Black Beauty, Little Fingers Orange: Cookstown Orange, Turkish Orange Red: Korean Red White: Thai White Ribbed Bi-Color: Rosa Bianca, Listada de Gandia, Pandora Striped Rose CUKES: Green: endless varieties available, including Straight 8, H-19 Little Leaf, Spacemaster, County Fair, Marketmore Yellow: Lemon, Jaune Dickfleischige, Large Dutch Yellow White: White Wonder Brownish or Reddish: Sikkim, Poona Kheera SQUASH (SUMMER): Yellow: Early Prolific Straightneck, Lemon, Golden Zucchini Green: Cocozelle, Bennings Green Tint, Ronde de Nice White: Odessa, Lebanese Bush Marrow Purple: Black Beauty zucchini Bi-colored: Patisson Panache Blanc Et Vert, Patisson Strie Melange (mix of several bicolored ones) SQUASH (WINTER): White/Pale Tan: Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash Green: Marina di Chioggia, True Green Hubbard, Black Futtsu, Yokohama Red: Turk's Turban or Turk's Cap, Red Kuri, Red Warty Thing Orange: Gill's Golden Pippin Blue: Blue Hubbard, Queensland Blue, Jarradale Brown/light brown/buff: Musquee de Provence, Seminole, Long Island Cheese Pink: Jaune Gros de Paris (often described as a yellow, but skin is more pink than yellow), Australian Butter HOT PEPPERS: There are so many, and I chose mine first by type, then by color within the type, but here's a few: Chinese Red, Caribbean Red Habanero, Peach Habanero, Lemon Drop, Fatali (yellow), Thai Red Chili, Thai Yellow Chili, Bulgaria Carrot, Fish Pepper (has variegated foliage and variegated peppers), Brown Habanero, White Habanero SWEET PEPPERS: Yellow: Corno di Toro Giallo, Quadrato D'Asti Giallo, Golden Cal Wonder, Heavyweight, Golden Marconi Red: Corno di Toro Rosso, Quadrato D'Asti Rosso, Red Marconi, Chinese Giant Purple: Purple Beauty, Purple Jalapeno, Purple Cayenne Brown: Sweet Chocolate Bell, Chocolate Bell, Chocolate Mini Bell Orange: Orange Bell, Valencia, Yummy Orange MELONS: Green Flesh: Eden Gem, Green Machine, Jenny Lind, Green Nutmeg Orange/Salmon Flesh: Pike, Hale's Best Jumbo, Old-Time Tennessee, Sleeping Beauty Golden Rind: Golden Sweet, Golden Honeymoon (honeydew), Gaucho Bi-Color: Tigger, Rich Sweetness 123 WATERMELON: White/Cream: Cream of Saskatchewan, White Sugar Lump, White Wonder Yellow: Yellow Doll, Yellow Baby, Moon & Stars Yellow Flesh, Tiny Orchid Orange: Orange-flesh Tendersweet, Orangeglo Red: Blacktail Mountain, Crimson Sweet, Sugar Baby, Moon & Stars Pink/Pinkish-Red: Osh Kirgizia, Black-seeded Ice Cream For Golden Rind: Golden Midget, Royal Garden SUMMER GREENS: Malabar Spinach, Aurora Orach, New Zealand Spinach, Purslane, Golden Purslane CABBAGE: Red: Mammoth Red Rock, Red Acre Green: Early Jersey Wakefield, Caraflex, Savoy Express SWISS CHARD (cool and warm season, if continually picked): Neon Lights (color mix) Bright Lights (color mix) Five Color Silverbeet (color mis) Perpetual Spinach chard Orange Chiffon Golden Sunrise OKRA: Red: Alabama Red, Hill Country Red, Burgundy Red, Little Lucy (dwaf) Orange: Jing Orange Green: many many, including Stewart's Zeebest, Green Velvet, Clemson Spineless 80, Cowhorn, Baby Bubba (dwarf) Bi-Color: Eagle Pass, Pitre Short Bush Red Cowhorn TURNIP: Yellow: Boule D'Or, Golden Globe White: Early Flat White, Shogoin, White Egg Purple/White Bicolor: Purple Top White Globe Red: Round Red SWEET CORN: White: Country Gentleman, Silver Queen Yellow: Golden Bantam, Kandy Korn Yellow/White: Honey & Pearl, Peaches & Cream Blue: Jade Blue Red: Ruby Queen Black: Aztec Black POPCORN: Red Strawberry Mini-Blue Dakota Black KALE: Black: Italiano Nero Toscana Red: Red Winter, Red Russian, Ragged Jack, Redbor Blue (dark blue-green): Dwarf Blue Curled BUNCHING ONIONS: Red: Italian Red of Florence, Red Baron F-1 White: White Lisbon, Beltsville Bunching Purple: Mini Purplette Bunching OTHER GREENS: Amaranth Edible Red Leaf Mache Corn Salad Common Sorrel Bok Choy Tatsoi Strawberry Spinach (Chenopodium) Dandelion Lambsquarters Magentaspreen Lambsquarters Miner's Lettuce MUSTARD (for leaves, not seeds): Red Giant Ruby Streak Southern Giant Curled (green) Mizuna Dawn

Those are nasturtiums growing to the right of it.... no blooms yet. Yarrow in the front left. Giant of Italy parsley front center. for the sake of staying on topic ... somewhat, I have a Spanish pimento and orange bell behind it. And yes I do love my SFG. In MA I used to have a nice garden. Here in NC the clay is rough so this technique was key to getting me back to it. My wife thinks I should sleep out there. I do believe fiedlermeister got it right. It is Basella alba 'Rubra'. I did start some red stemmed Malabar but it did not germinate...so I thought. I may have mislabeled the starts...oops. Mystery solved. Thank you all for your great input.