I have always found new bulblets attached to the bottom of bulbs. From Lily of the Valleys, to Hyacinths, to Amaryllis, they all put out new bulbs from the bottom. Once the layer/scale that the bulblet is under, like on mine, dries up and turns thin and papery, it 'sprouts' out of the soil and there is another bulb growing. Sounds like the way my Papilio is doing it, just the way yours does it, it is on the basal plate,under a layer/scale, and once the layer dries out, it will pop through it, sprout and start to grow. Maybe because it is so big now, it is showing through? Which means maybe it will be a 'great mother bulb:)'. That it will make many bulbs, once it is growing and happy, it will become a bulb making 'machine'. Maybe the bulblets on some of your amaryllis are smaller and dont show when you have them out of the soil, but they do come from the basal plate/under a layer/scale. Like that very first Papilio I got that has SO many bulblets removed, and their removal ripped so many layers, it deformed the bottom, and that started me writing here, asking for advise, it is a great 'mother bulb' as Donna said, they took off so many bulblets, wherever it came from, they deformed it. As Donna said, it sounds like it is/was a great mother bulb, putting out so many that they took them off...like 6 of them. Well that first one is still living, no rot yet! And signs of life on it now, leaves at least, so it might put out a lot more bulblets down the road. Where as all my other Papilios didnt have any bulblets on them. They were all removed. BUT this one is under a live layer/scale, so the grower couldnt remove it, without causing major damage. The other 3 Papilios didnt have any bulblets showing...when planted. Well...I am just happy to have a baby bulb growing on the mother bulb, and as long as it grows and flowers and then one day this bulblet pops up, I will be happy:).

You need to determine what your friends did with the plants after you gave them away. If they just popped them in the ground with no prep or TLC, one fruit or none would be expected. Tomatoes need just a little care, and I can tell you from experience that if they are just thrown in the ground or ignored, then they are not going to do anything. When I first moved here, I had no time to set up a garden the first year and threw some plants in the ground only to get one tomato and 6 poor plants. Now the same area gives me 100's of pounds of tomatoes and other veggies every year. Don't blame yourself or your offerings.

Thanks to all of you for your input. Let me provide a little more information so that you will be able to answer my primary question about the drain. The bathroom is on the first floor with easy access from the unfinished basement below. It has post and beam construction and my husband said that beams beneath the subfloor would not interfere with a drain in either location. We know that some distances are a bit short if we were trying to bill this as a true ADA facility, but we are just trying to make this accessible for our own use if we ever need to use a wheelchair in the future. Right now, our only shower is on the second floor, so we want to have something in place that will let us stay in our home as we age. We have taped the room layout and experimented with a borrowed wheelchair. We do not have a full turning radius but can maneuver the chair with just a few extra turns. For the shower, we would use a smaller rolling shower chair. We would roll directly in and back out. We will use a curved curtain when the time comes. For the vanity, we will have 15 inch drawers at each end leaving about 32 inches open space in the middle. The drain will be offset so that the lavatory pipes will be closer to the wall. As we have experimented with the borrowed wheelchair, we are able to turn into the knee space without bumping the drawer bases. For now when accessibility is not an issue, we want the door to swing in. This bathroom opens off the front entry hall, so we want a partially open door to block the view of the toilet from the entry hall and from the living room. When the time comes for a wheelchair (hopefully many years from now), we would reverse the door so that it swings into the hallway. Another option we considered would be to build in the framing for a future pocket door; but for right now, I want the door to swing in to limit the view into the toilet portion of the room. My purpose for posting here is to get more information from others about best placement of the drain and I need information about how to build in the right amount of slope. I have seen pictures of curbless showers with linear drains. While the floors appear to be pretty flat, I presume that there is some gentle sloping built in so that there is no standing water. I have read that the drain for a curbless shower should be 2" lower than the doorway for the room. I assume that this is to limit damage in the rest of the house if the drain were to back up. Do I understand this correctly? If so, is the 2" measured from the surface of the grate where it is flush with the tile or is it measured from some lower point within the trench? From whatever point it is measured, how do we obtain the required slope? Do we slope the whole floor from the vanity, from the doorway or from some other point closer to the shower? It seems as though you would have a longer run in which to achieve a more gental slope if you were to put the drain along the back wall (B). Likewise, it seems as though you would be working with shorter (steeper?) runs if you were sloping to a drain in the A location, and it seems as though you would be creating a "valley" there. Please let me know if I am not understanding something correctly. How much does a linear drain need to be recessed for a curbless shower? How much does the floor need to slope toward the drain? How long a run is needed to achieve the desired slope? Finally, what is the best location for the drain in our particular bathroom?

Leah, I have a black blanco silgranit sink. I love it! Last week, I had some oatmeal that I had walked away from, it had completely dried in the pan and was beginning to scorch, without thinking, I sat it down in the sink ( I have the black rubber type sink pads with the holes in the bottom of the sink), on top of the pad, I turned the water on to cool it down. The pad did not even melt, the sink is good as new. I have the large open sink with no divider, it is awesome. I would recommend this sink to anyone!