Baby Acer - Foliage Close-up 4, Day 4 from planting, 25.9.12

I sent you an email! Please save your Highlight Zinnia for me, also some others I'd like to trade for. Have some of your wants on my list. Thanks, Connie Mayflower57

Most people who ask for plants, don't offer postage. I have noticed that, being I can't pay for others plants collection now that Chuck has died, I just don't offer to send out as many things, like the journals, and books I used to. Jeff and I always sent out extra cuttings instead of tossing them out, well now I toss them out. I have Rhipsalis, but only field collected plants from Myron Kimnach given to me from the HBG, most of us trade freely and don't even count who sent what, but this after we have established a relationship of trust. I just gave away 3 boxes of Sansevieria today, to a dear old friend. He gave me a large San. 'Base Ball Bat' which I already had, but I shut my mouth and just said thank you for the lovely plant. When people ask for information regarding a plant, if the name isn't correctly spelled or the correct species isn't given I can't look it up. For instance what do I look under (Family name) do I look for Lederbouria? It is driving me nuts for two days now. I can't even find Drimia any nice, polite suggestions? Norma

Hi Scarlet - Thank you and I am very sorry that your veggies did not turn well, we all learn after we failed and try not to make more mistakes again. I grow some some veggies in pots, always the tomatoes but they have to have room to grow unless they are the dwarf size and can be grown in a smaller pot and of course the red mulch is a big no. I don't put any mulch in the containers because I like to test the soil for watering and also with the humidity here it can create problems, You have to look for veggies that can be grown in containers, I had success with Renee garden seeds for containers. You can do well with peppers, herbs, lettuce, dwarf kale, some zucchini and cucumber varieties will need a bigger containers. Growing in the ground or raised bed is easier but sometimes not possible due to space or in case with the tomatoes and the nematodes. Don't give up and try to find better containers. I have some inexpensive plastic tubs and growing celery, parsley and cilantro, sometimes I do lettuce in them or start seedlings, all my containers have multiple uses. Hope to see you on the forum more often and asking questions, that is why we are her for, don't give up! Hi Becca - I hope that you solve the problem with the tomatoes, that is the main reason that I plant more than I need, something happened or they get diseased, I have other ones. With the weather and the bugs here it is not the easiest thing to do to grow healthy plants unless we are very careful and spray if we have to. Good to know that you are getting beans and greens, the other veggies will follow, broccoli and cauliflower take a long time. Try to get some transplants of a different tomato variety and put them in a different place if you can, to see if you have better luck, I plant heirlooms and hybrids for the same reason, something has to do well. Eventually you will get to know what does better in your conditions. Silvia