GaryJoe, I'm glad you found Mountain Glory to your satisfaction. If you cannot find seeds for sale next spring, let me know, as I still have a couple hundred left. I thought Top Gun was good, too. It made quite large, heavy toamtoes with a good flavor ... somewhat tart compared to other typical modern hybrids. Very determinate and short. Bolseno ... talk about tart! Now there's a tart baseball size canner for you. And extremely productive on a rampant indeterminate vine. Hey, check out Sophya too. Another TSWV-res. indeterminate Italian type like Bolseno, but with much larger fruit and much heavier, denser interior walls. Nice 5-locule slicer. Decent flavor and very productive. I noticed it didn't like cool wet weather, doing the extreme leaf curl thing in response to early summer monsoon season and cool nights. But one vine I held back and topped off, shot out new shoots and sprawled all over the place producing many many trusses of 3 or 4 heavy tomatoes larger than baseballs with very dark green shoulders turning crimson at full ripe with a hint of remaining green like so many Italian types. Bill

OK I am going to be building my second box this afternoon. My first box was the one with the single tote, using the center of the top as the soil elevator with the two PVC wicking chambers in two corners. This one will be the model that uses two totes, with the bottom part inverted as the soil base(like Raybos), with the single large center whicking chamber. The plaastic whicking thing I picked up from HD is rather large....square with 9" sides. So now I will have three self watering container one real earthbox, and my two home made versions. We can see how they stack up. Like Raybo, my two homemade versions are big 30 gallon suckers. They really dwarf the real Earthbox

Well unfortunately the residential Jade Oven as good looking as it is and how well built as it is..(a Viking looks like a TOY compared to this thing)..has it's problems. We have had the 36" Natural Gas oven for 3 1/2 years and I sit here tonight at 11:07 hungry while my wife is Stove Top cooking a dish that needs to be cooked in the Oven.This will be the third Jade failure in 3 1/2 years but.. mainly the problem has to do with the igniters, which are made by Norton..and made very cheaply indeed. They are the same igniters which are in most Ovens today. So its not really Jades fault. Those Norton things need to be improved. It is just too ridiculous that in a residential environment that they should fail every 2-3 years.In the old days an oven went on with no issues for 3 0 years. The 1 year warranty is just not long enough but Jade does stand behind the oven often anyway. These ovens ARE beautiful and you know what..I'd buy the same one again..but they should make they're warranty 3 years and find a more durable igniter. They have the beauty & the build but have to have a more durable.. or snap in customer interchangeable Igniter. I like the Oven enough, Id buy a another one all over again but those Norton Igniters which are in most brands of Oven are RUBBISH...and it makes life hard where it need not be, for what..? This post was edited by nick59 on Tue, Aug 26, 14 at 15:04

We had the door issue with a circa '07 RNB back when they were just telling you to grease it. Then again, when they were sending out door skins. Neither fully fixed the problem, and Bluestar wouldn't send out a door replacement for us, despite this issue. We continue to do the lube hinges and use a screwdriver to get it open once a year or so. Very frustrating. Extended warranty calls it a "cosmetic" (huh?) issue and won't repair. (They say same thing about banging oven floor.) Bluestar says out of warranty so sad, can't help, even though it's a known issue that required a design change. Unlike others here, I haven't had the luck of having Bluestar service improve. I ask about once a year - when it gets stuck - to get this fixed once and for all, and, at this point, never even hear anything back. Oh and, "SoCal1," are you sure it's not my range you're cooking on? Ha! I could have written that same exact post.