These may have seemed harder, but you guys are actually doing pretty well. And without any clues! The only one nobody's mentioned yet is the second half of #3. Yes, Kerry, one point for genus and one for species, I hadn't figured cv. names into the equation. Perhaps I should have had a 3 point system, but it doesn't seem to be an issue with any of these. Keeping score has gotten a bit harder now with all of the changes and multiple answers, but I'll do my best. Japie, are you sure it's #2 you want to change? So far that's about the only one that everybody seems to agree on! I have a feeling your answer was meant for #4, as a couple of the others had. Assuming that to be the case, your current score is 14, otherwise it drops to 10. It's not always wise to go with the majority. ;-) Kerry has moved into the lead with 16.... or 15, depending on how I score #8. Glad you caught the boat, Yong, you have 13 points. Andrew, you changed a couple of your answers mid-post. If I count everything mentioned you get 12 points, but if I go with your final answers, it's 11. BTW, your suspicions are correct. ;-) So, I'll let you math/logic wizards figure it all out while I sleep, and I'll give the full list in the morning. In the meantime, for #3..... think small.

I guess it still come down to how much you value it and how much effort are you willing to give to your orchid tree? I keep hoping someone will chime in and say it comes back from a Austin winter. I have heard of them surviving a San Antonio with a protected position. As to more harm to replant it, welllll I know I wouldn't like it butttt it may not survive (but maybe it will?)if left in the ground. I can't say much about quick start or in general most miracle gro products ( I am biased against them personally) and use rocket fuel, alfalfa pellets and seaweed to kickstart my transplants. Too much phosphorus the main material in quick start and most "root stimulators" are probably best in acid soil conditions not the alkaline soil condition we have west of I-35. I am not saying it can't help it is just not what I would use or could personally reccomend. If I were to repot it I would consider a couple of things. 1. Am I going to keep it in a pot long term (over 1 year)? 2. If so I would amend any potting mix definely if I used mircle gro. ( I use the broke bags at the garden center but add more perlite, soil conditioner (fine shredded pine bark), coconut coir and of course alfalfa pellets and then more osmocote 18-6-12 and medina micronutrients to it. Then dust the rootball and the bottom and sides within the pot with rocket fuel. Then I water the transplant with a weak solution (1 tsp per gal.) of seaweed to finish the process. 3. I am just saying what I use not that this is what everyone should use because it has worked so well for me but just so you know that I have a different approach to the whole transplanting process than many and one that evolved for me over several years of experimenting and observing the results and this is what I found work best overall for me. 4. The key to long term pot success IMHO is to have a majority of the media to be an inert product or at least something that doesn't breakdown too fast. Keeping a good air exchange in the pot profile is of utmost importance. Again this is not the only way but science and practical experience shows me and many others I have worked with and shared gardening containered culture ideas with that this has the best chance of long term health for most any plant (except bog or water plants). If you want to discuss it more let me know what you have questions on and I will offer whatever help I can. Good Luck and Happy Growing David

My mother separates mixed frozen veggies she gets on sale. Dad does not like the 'blends'. She has a table next to the freezer in the breezeway shed and takes a bowl with her and takes out a bowl full of frozen and takes what she wants...they don't eat much because they eat small snack meals. He likes his roasted sweet potatoes with cauliflower rice. Broccoli with a small steak. The rest in soups. In their late 80's now they don't garden much but i gave them seeds for a compact variety of zucchini and some mixed micro salad greens they have planted and are very happy with that. I did not see anything trite, self-centered or food snobby discussing frozen peas...many on a cooking food forum are just putting out there what they do and hope for some ideas for their pantry/freezer. Initially i did not see a mention of poverty or the elderly. Just a sharing of a good basic freezer stock. I stock baby peas and baby limas in the winter. Frozen spinach is just a good bargain any time of the year. Other veg frozen are from my garden. Or the farm stand like corn i cut off the cob, then freeze. I have a big freezer because of my garden and over 100 tomato plants. I keep forgetting about nutmeg! Such a special flavor and i need to try it with beans. Artichoke hearts frozen i forget as well. We have one great dish and artichokes in season are 2 for 5 dollars so it is a seasonal treat. Not very often. Frozen is often a better option for out-of-season veggies. Or those that do not grow well as Annie mentioned. I had great years for broccoli and cauliflower and nothing the past five or so with so much heat...basil was destroyed once again...bunnies maybe. No fruit on the trees from a late frost but tomatoes are gorgeous. Beets gone from a critter but radishes and garlic are beauty. Early peas are now leathery but inside are good shelled. Hoping string beans will be good this year. I plant sooo much as seeds are cheap and always get something great.... Leeks are expensive here so i grow a big bed of them and freeze. I spent high school frozen cold with a kerosene heater in a small kitchen/tv room and grandparents that layed out paper towels on the counter to dry and recycle and Pop pounded on the bathroom door to remind not to flush and only use a sprinkle of water to wash hands...with a sign that read "drips dribble dimes down the drain". I've worked very hard to not have a food budget as an adult but got up this morning at 5am and made stock from smoked organic chickens from the weekend and made salad for DH lunch and three meals and froze 4 pints for future soups not because we are food poor but because it just tastes so much better. And i just enjoy it. (then worked a 14hr day). Like every day. I bet my food budget if i cared to keep track is so much lower than most by not buying processed foods.

Some of these comments I don't understand...well no I do understand but....ELD clearly stated in her first post that her transaction was completed..so ELD didn't need to bag or pay, she just needed past someone in order to leave the area. Said excuse me to get past the womans cart and leave the area...petfectly acceptable and mannerly on ELDS part.... Lets say your cruising down an isle and someone's cart is parked in the center and you can't get thru...do you say excuse me so they move their cart..or stand and wait while I go thru my 700 coupons looking for the one I want...of course you say excuse me..and I move my cart probably apologing for hogging the space. I see nothing wrong in what Eld did..she completed her transaction and wanted to just leave the area..she wasn't butting in line...she was leaving.