G.'Rozeanne' is a sprawler. It sends out trailers of stems that weave beautifully into other plants. Plant it where it can do that and you'll have some gorgeous combinations. It's not a mounder like some other geraniums and shouldn't be treated as one.

wow - lots of suggestions over the few days I've been away. Thanks! With regards to basil - I did convert half of one of the 4x4s to basil partway through summer, and I've got a hydroponic basil setup in my classroom so we did pretty well on that this year, but I would like to get into different varieties and see what I can do. With zucchini - we MAJORLY struck out on that this past year. I've never in my entire life done poorly with zucchini or other summer squash, but this year we planted four plants, only got one zucchini which grew to about 6" and then rotted. The other plants failed to thrive....I've NEVER had that problem before, but we'll be trying again next year! Peppers - we had four varieties totaling about 40 plants last year. They were planted a little closely for what the seed packs say, but we did okay. One thing that we don't get to produce well is bell peppers. We had great bells a few years ago in a different location that is now a flower bed, but we can't get them to grow much more than MAYBE tennis ball sized, but usually much, much smaller and more oddly shaped than what you should get. We've done better with banana peppers and two other varieties (including some of those mini bells that you can find at the grocery store...we saved some seeds from them a couple of years ago and they do great!). We are trying to overwinter in pots our two biggest plants from last summer. They're not doing so hot, but we'll see what happens. Melons - last year we did melons and even the watermelons only got to be about baseball sized. They took up a ton of room so we won't be doing those again. Beans - had some in both 4x4s and then planted them across the entire garden late in the season as a cover crop to put nitrogen back in the soil. Hopefully it will help solve some of the problems we ran into last year. Greens - We did really well on greens the year before (chard, multiple lettuce varieties, and spinach) but couldn't get them to really grow well this past year. I'd like to figure out what's going on there because we did really use them a lot when we had them. Cucumbers - two years ago we had so many that we still have pickles in the cupboard. Last year we planted a quarter of what we did the year before and we had enough for fresh consumption but not enough for any canning which was fine. Spaghetti squash - Did well on them this past year but we didn't make good use of them so we probably won't plant them again. Carrots - planted them in one of the 4x4s and got a single harvest. Had never planted them before, so we will be doing them again but will try to adjust timing to have more than one harvest. Beets - same as carrots. Chives, green onions, garlic - did alright with them, dried them, and are still using them. Will happen again! Eggplant - I would LOVE to get good eggplant, but flea beetles DESTROY them every year and don't seem to bother anything else in the garden. We got a single one out of four to fruit this year and got one eggplant that wasn't even of usable size off of it. Potatoes - would like to do these again. We tried them for the first time last year but they didn't get very big (we got maybe 8 golf ball sized potatoes off of two plants. Two other plants died early on). Peas - Always do good with them in fall and spring.

I installed gas valves that recess into the wall for my dryer and standing range in our kitchen, OXBOX by Sioux. The problem is the flex piping itself has to have room to bend. What can help is to have a 90 degree nipple right at the wall to attach to the gas line and a 90 degree right at the wall of the dryer itself. This still will leave you needing at least a couple inches. The Dryer vent even straight out like mine isnt exactly lined up with the dryer machines outlet so I need at least 4 inches anyway to make the alignment unobstructed. So my machines stand out about 4 inches from the wall anyway. Not what I wanted but it was the best I could work out. I even put the drain pipes in the wall for the washer but the gas dryer kind of spoiled it in my new kitchen. In reality though you need a few inches for the drain pipe from the washer too so its not all that much difference. We still have plenty of room for moving around in our alley kitchen Kathy is so happy not to have to go up and down steps now that she has bad knees and in a lot of pain doing so.

Avoiding the main stream consensus and suggest that you could have more if you wanted too. Your planter space inst really an issue, it's the cuc's crawling space, growing more then the optimal amount (whichever number that happens to be for you) wont decrease yield and can potentially increase yield seeing as they can sprawl for it. In other words, 2 plants per square foot could yield the same as 4 plants, however there's the crawling factor. In my case, I have to plant cucs heavier then most people because the ground cover they put out early is far superior in water retention for me, which is a crucial point to my cucs success. I also never plant in hills, which goes against the grain and yet it's another factor that greatly effects yields for me. When it doubt, test it out. That's how you learn. What one person thinks is optimal isn't necessary optimal for the next person because there's too many different variables involved.