In the last few years I've mostly been making jams and jellies, Ana's raspberry vinegar and Annie's strawberry rhubarb jelly are a couple of my favorites. I'm definitely going to try Natals Berry Berry Hot Pepper Jelly, it looks soooooo good. I freeze more than I can nowadays, always used a water bath when I did can so that limited what I could put up. I used to do a lot of peaches, pears, cherries and plums, they taste way better than what you can buy, especially peaches. We've got a propane burner (for want of a better name) which we take out and fire up outside either in the courtyard or lathhouse where it's cool and do any water bath canning there, no need to steam up the kitchen. Annette

The totes are 10 gal. So about 18" tall. The tomato carges are round. The first few I purchased a few years ago were from Walmart and they are the 3 ring kind. I don't really use them anymore. The rest are round but 5 ring and a lot more stout. I would say the legs are roughly 8" long. I really don't want to go out and purchase all new cages. I don't want to spend a much more money. I was thinking maybe 2 rebar rods in each box and attach the cages to them but with approximately 16 tomato plants that is 32 rods. If they are just $3 each that is roughly $100 just for rods. SInce they are just used as raised beds I guess I would use the 5 gallon buckets and drill small holes around the cage leg then attach cable toes thru the holes and around the cages.

Thanks tomh and Cat..... it worked. You are so helpful....I am sorry about asking this lame question but, I did many moons ago and forgot how to do it. I knew someone at this forum would help me. Thank you. Cricketm/Marie

Hello, Well it's taking me a few days to get back to you. We have had thunderstorms here for the last couple of days and it finally cleared. This computer has been unpluged because of severe storms, so sorry I am late getting back to you. Randy: I tried CCleaner on one of my computers a few years back and for some reason it never downloaded right, so I decided not to try and install it again and removed what was there. Zep516:I think some of the problem with these 2 programs in particular is when they are updated they end up starting up again--yes another poorly written program. You are absolutely right there. The people who built this computer took out the icon and also took it out of startup and when I updated it the icon etc came back. I have no idea what they used to get Kodak EasyShare out of the startup program and remove the icon. QuickStart has always been there but I just right click on it and shut it down. I also do the same for Kodak EasyShare. DA: I have heard of WinPatrol but have never used it. I was pretty new here when these programs were brought up and I was afraid to try anything that I didn't understand. No ones fault, just mine and me being scared to try them. Winpatrol will want to be part of the startup too. So it also has to be disabled and then it will be an on-demand utility. After its inital use and any other future usage you will only have to close WP from the Notification Area by right-clicking on the icon. Aren't there any programs out there that doesn't want to be a part of startup? It seems to me that you are just trading one program for another that wants to go to startup. Am I correct in thinking this? Also, remember I stated disable not delete. Delete is permanent, disable is temporary. Got Ya! "Wink" Oh no, just went downstairs and part of my basement is flooded. What next? Ugh! Time to get the mop. thirdfrt!!!