I was also wondering what happened to you. The way your album is sounds fine to me. Can't wait to see your pictures of the Convention. It still makes me laugh when I think about the picture of the yellow iris (tulip) that you posted this spring. Shadow

cake, a tomato you just have to try? Maybe I should check Craig's website to see which varieties he's offering plants for before even trying to answer that question, which I'll try to do after I go back to bed right now and when I get up later. I could make a long list of what I like from the over 3,000 varieties I've grown, but best to see what he's bringing to the the market. I don't know how far away from Raleigh you are but Shoe in Efland also sells tomato plants. Not that you want to hear more about pruning, but I just can't help myself here. I have never but never pruned a tomato plant and here's the reasons why. The more foliage you have the greater the amount of photosynthesis you have which means the more energy in the form of ATP and GTP which are the energy compounds that allow for synthesis of all plant parts, blossom formation, fruit set and fruit maturation. In addition, if you have foliage diseases then at least you have some backup foliage. I can see someone pruning plants if staking b;c one usually prunes to one or two leader stems, but the distance for stakes and cages is about the same and I far prefer caging. I grew most of my plants by either sprawling or caging and grew some varieties both ways. So let me check Craig's website where he usually lists all the varieties he's bringing to the Farmers Market and get back to you here. It would help a LOT if you could mention what YOU like as to plant habit, maybe some of the new Dwarf varieties for containers, perhaps some indeterminates, and for either, what color fruits and shapes, I'm a heart lover for instance, and other specs you might want to grow. Or maybe you should just go to the Farmer's market and ask Craig himself, actually I think that's the better way to do it. If you haven't met him before it's time you do and he's not shy at all, and actually talks a mile a minute as I do as well. I was just counting up the years we've known each other, initially as SSE members, and I've known him well since 1989, so there you go. Last year he and his wife had to be up this way and he delivered my plants in person and he and his wife and I had a wonderful time b'c through all the years this was the first time we actually met. maybe I should mention that for years and years I grew all of my own plants and had out many hundreds of plants and varieties each year, but in Dec of 2004 I fell, b'c of two bad hips, severed all four quads in my right leg which led to my having to use a walker since then. So now what I grow , and I should say what Freda grows for me, she now does all my gardening for me, is in the backyard here at home where there are about 40 tomato plants in Gro-bags and containers and I grow other stuff as well. But my real love has always been perennials, especially fragrant ones, so there's lots and lots of beds here just full of those as well. Enough for now. ASk Craig at the market what he suggests for you and give him a big Hi from me, although we're in contact all the time via e-mail and phone. ( smile) Carolyn, who now does have two new hips but still has to use the walker since the inner quad didn't return to function.

Thanks everyone! I'll keep you posted. I've just painted the drywall and am having the lumber delivered this week for the floor in my kitchen. If the roads are passable after the ice/snow storm we had last week. I was looking forward to being snowed in and making some headway on my house in the "down time"- I didn't anticipate not having power for a week! SO much for progress. I hope it was helpful. I have learned so much from this website and am always willing to share if it could benefit someone else.

Gorgeous, thanks for sharing? We are currently choosing countertops for our kitchen reno and your pictures are selling me on Superwhite! Questions: 1. What edge did you use on your counters? 2. What is the height between your countertop and the bottom of your cabinets? I think 18 inches is standard, yours look a bit higher which is what we are thinking of doing in our new kitchen. 3. Do you know the company that made your cabinet knob hardware, where did you buy it? Thanks much!