Hi Carla - What kind of project do you have going? In other words, what is it you are wanting to direct sow? I don't do veggies, but I do start many other things from seed...feel free to email of course :) :) :)

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Capoman: I keep thinking about getting more soil and I drive by the store every day. I don't think I will sleep right till I do pot up to the 3 gallon. Going to stop there later! And as far as the 511 mix. I am scouring my local shops to see what I can scrounge up..not going good. Thanks for chiming in. Bill: The summers get brutal here and I also picked up some lava sand to top mulch and then cover with pine chips. Just getting ready for the summer and trying to slow down evaporation. Everything helps and since I am planning on moving sometime around August, containers are my only option. Bruce: I guess I have to get out of the bonsai mindset. I am in the habit of root and top pruning my other plants because they are in containers as well. The bonchi fascinates me. With the 1 gallon and soon the 3 gallon containers, my plan was to use the thick green gardening steaks punctured through the bottom drain holes of the pots in an attempt to steak down the plants and use the bamboo with green gardeners tape to create a mock tomato cage style holding pattern to some what control the growth. I do not mind doing the additional work. My Espaliered trees require a lot of work so it is a nice break to get to play around with the pepper plants! :-)

I don't know how much pressure the Polaris needs, but we have an Intelliflo and still needed a booster pump to run a Pentair Legend cleaner. "Does the booster pump scavenges un-filters water from the skimmer and send it to the sweep via a separate pipe, or does it scavange filtered water, is there a pressure value that feeds the sweep?" Our booster pump draws water from the supply pipe leading to the skimmers from the filter. There's no pressure valve, the pipe out of the booster leads straight to a fitting in the side wall of the pool.