Thank You mates for your lovely comments... :) Our summers are rather dry and hot (110 F) so we dont have a powdery mildew problem... though it occurs in the end of fall on my Dahlias only and i use fresh whole milk and water as spray (1:3 ratio) after three to four sprays daily it is all gone, but it reoccurs after a month or so... this is just my observation.. Izhar

For Jalapenos with no heat, you can grow False Alarm, Delicias or Fooled You. In that group, Fooled You is easiest to find. It normally is available from Tomato Growers Supply Company. Or, you can buy them as plants the spring. They usually are a part of the Bonnie Plants line. If you want a Jalapeno with some heat (but not too much), you can grow TAM Mild Jalapeno. It comes in at about 1,000 Scoville Heat Units. That might sound like a lot of heat, but it really isn't. Most of the jalapenos my family (including me) enjoys come in at 3,000 to 8,000 Scoville Heat Units. I started out with TAM Mild and progressively worked my way up to eating hotter and hotter varieties. The hotter and drier the weather, in general, while the peppers are growing, the hotter the pepper. In some very hot, dry years, my favorite jalapeno varieties are almost too hot for me to eat. I have grown the no-heat ones and I didn't care for them. I thought I'd love them before I grew then, but found that without the heat they just didn't appeal to me.

It is certainly feasible to make modifications to accommodate limitations. For example, Matthew Stanford is a fairly well-known yoga teacher who has been in a wheelchair since he was a teenager. There are plenty of things that you can do sitting in a chair or standing. From the pelvis upwards, a seated spinal twist is very similar whether you're seated on the floor with your legs twisted into pretzels or are seated on a firm chair with your feet flat on the floor. Even without the legs, there are physical benefits and plenty to learn. I taught yoga for many years. Frankly, everyone has limitations or one sort or another. A basic idea in yogic philosophy is that each of us has to start where we are now - physically, emotionally, spiritually, etc. Finding modifications for physical challenges is a piece of cake compared to getting a student who approaches everything as a competition to be addressed through brute force to see that "doing less" works better. If you can't find a yoga teacher who is willing to work with limited mobility, try to find a Fendenkrais teacher. The movements are slow and require attentiveness. They dovetail nicely with the way I preferred to teach yoga, so I often used them to make certain yoga postures more accessible.

I will check it out once I get back into gardening mode--I'll be starting seeds in a couple weeks! You can check out some of my pics of some of the 'maters & peppers I grow at the link below. I had thousands of pics but can't get one of my external hard drives to boot, will have to see if I still have them on my flash card. I haven't updated that page in about 4 years and the 2nd half that doesn't have links to pics, many of those I've since grown and photographed. The e-mail at the bottom is no longer valid. I have grown or have had seeds for over 500 tomato varieties and over 100 pepper varieties.