All Heirlooms: Yellow Pear Tomato Cherokee Purple tomato Beefsteak tomato Large Red Cherry tomato Pink Brandywine tomato Black Seeded Simpson lettuce Paris Island Romaine lettuce Straight Eight cucumber Looking for Heirloom tomatoes such as Black Kirm, Black Cherry, Mortgage Lifter, Pineapple, kellogg's Breakfast, Cherokee Green. I would be interested in any heirloom tomatoes.

Would you like some allium bulbs? Allium is blooming right now. After it's done I could dig some up and send them to you for next year. I'll probably have seed, too, but a few bulbs would give you a few blooms next year instead of in 5 years. You can let me know. Heidi in Nebraska Here is a link that might be useful:

I'm interested in your White Spine Cucumber, Turbo/Talladega Cucumber, Piel De Sapo Melon and Coban Orange Flesh Melon. Will send an email...

Susan, Like Jeff, I am a bit puzzled that chamomile gives you trouble and can only guess that maybe your soil holds either more moisture than ours, or holds on to the moisture a bit longer. Chamomile, as near as I can tell from growing it for many years, likes really well-drained soil that verges on being almost dry. I have had it reseed itself into clay that holds quite a bit of moisture and it even did well there....and, in fact, got bigger in that thick clay than in my improved garden soil in my raised veggie/herb beds. But, just because it seems to thrive in drier soil doesn't mean it won't grow in somethat moister soil. When mine are in moister soil, they just get significantly larger. I keep them deadheaded (the dried flowers make great chamomile tea) and that keeps 'em going longer tool. When allowed to set seed at the end of the season, they drop a lot of seed and, thus, reseed like mad and I have dozens, if not hundreds, of new ones come up every year. As for dill.....I have never noticed that the heat is particularly hard on it. Of course, I like to harvest the foliage to dry for dill weed and, by doing that, I am keeping it from setting seed, so it does last a whole lot longer. The minute it sets seed, though, poof...it is done! I usually cut and harvest dill weed for a long time before I let it go to seed so I can then harvest the dill seed. Jeff, Chamomile seedlings look very similar to the adult plant, just smaller and thinner. They are very, very thin and wispy, almost feathery looking when they emerge. They are that lovely light spring green, almost a Granny Smith apple type of green. When they first emerge, they are very, very small but they grow pretty quicly. Once you see a chamomile seedling, you'll never forget it because it has a unique delicate look. Also, the foliage has a delightful scent--sort of sweet and somewhat like apples. I don't know if the scent is apparent when they are really tiny, but I know that I can smell it when I dig up small seedlings out of the pathways and transplant them somewhere else. As for the tomatoes cracking, it would have been unusual if they HADN'T cracked in last year's rain. Hopefully this year will be drier. Once your fruit are ripening, keep the watering to a minimum and that will both decrease the cracking and intensify the flavor. OK, I only came inside to grab a quick bite to eat. Now I need to get back out to the garden where I am, in fact, transplanting chamomile seedlings from the pathway to a tomato bed. Dawn