Ron, As it's a Canadian nursery, I expect you'll get few responses. A few weeks ago it was recommended to me for alpines and cold-hardy cacti by another nursery owner on Vancouver Island, but he didn't know much about the place. Have you called them yet? I'm assuming you got the first order you placed.

First of all, I had just placed a large order with Willhite for a lot of common veggies, so I really didn't need to buy a lot more things. It's my husband's fault...... Beans - Aquadulce (fava) My husband picked these and I am still unsure if I want to bother with this one. Dragon Tonque Contender Roma II bush Red Rice Bean Mayflower Missouri Wonder Pole Rattlesnake Pole Old Homestead Kentucky Wonder Pole Chinese Green Noodle Chinese Mosaic Thai White Seeded Long Corn Stowells Evergreen True Gold Yellow Hickory King Dent Peas Sugar Snap Oregon Sugar Pod II Alaska Wando Lincoln Pepper Quadrato d'Asti Rosso Purple Beauty Golden Marconi Quadrato D"Asti Giallo Colan Red Pimento Anaheim (which was free) Okra Clemson Spineless Thai Grandfather Kurtz Cowhorn (a small cowhorn, I think) Lettuce Red Romaine Lolla Rossa Squash Baby Blue Hubbard Golden Hubbard Jumbo Pink Banana Herbs Oregano Vulgare Catnip Thai Green Cucumber New Zealand Spinach Shanghai Green Pak Choy American Top Rutabaga Elephant Head Amaranth And then there are the tomatoes. I have tomatoes on hand plus I sent a list to Jay that he could choose from to send to me, and I didn't know what I would get from him, etc. Some I based on what I could remember that the Tomato Man's Daughter says are her top choices. So I bought: Carbon Black Krim Black Cherry Hawaiin Pinapple Cherokee Purple Dr Carolyn Sioux Tess's Land Race Now about that garlic.....I don't know. I bought it from a vendor and didn't ask what it was. She had several plates of garlic all cleaned and pretty on plates on her table which I was looking at. A man was trying to choose some and she told him if he was planting it she had some others (not cleaned) and if he wanted those she would throw in some extra. He chose the clean ones. After he left, I told her I wanted some to plant. She pulled out a big bunch and asked me how many I wanted. I said "I'll take what you have in your hand." She counted them and told me the price, then threw in two more. I didn't even think to ask what kind it was because I thought if she could grow it in the Ozarks, then I could grow it here. I asked her if she planted in Sept and harvested in June. She said, "Exactly". A younger lady in the same booth said, "We plant in September or October, and we harvest when it has 3 dead leaves." She also said that they use the small cloves and plant the large ones. I came home and separated all of the cloves. I picked about 4 dozen of the largest cloves and put the rest in a bowl to use in the kitchen. Now the kicker....I paid $4 for the whole thing. Back to the seeds...When we walked in they had a special price for over 25 packs. It was a great price, but I am not going to post it here because they don't post it on their website. Also, I don't know if it was an end of season thing or if this was routine. I thought it was an end of season special, but when I looked at my seeds they were a few mixed in that said for the 2010 season, so now I don't know. I am going back in about a month because one of my friends is having a "fit" because she didn't get to go. LOL We wanted to go back anyway, so taking her back gives us a good excuse. Besides that, I didn't even look at melons, and I've got to buy Collective Farm Women. LOL I admire this company for what they are doing, and for the success of Jere for starting a company when he was 17 and staying with it until it was a big success. On the other side of the coin, he is a bit over the top for my taste. LOL He was walking around the area dressed in a garb that wouldn't have even been considered stylish in the 70's, (but was that old) and was just downright ugly. I thought some of the outfits I had seen him photographed in were bad, but this was too much. Guess if you have money you can "have it your way", but gosh. Anyway, he has a nice place and it is drawing people in, so you have to consider that a success. Oh - and one more thing. They are not open on Saturday. My guess was that it could be their Sabbath, but I didn't ask. Another bonus of the trip was that we went through Seymore and saw three different Amish individuals and couples traveling in their buggy. It was Saturday night. I picked the tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and squash and a few other things, but I made the mistake of telling my DH that I wanted to be sure to look at beans. I didn't. He just went over and bought one of everything that was there...then he hit the peas and okra. He buys big.

I think the opinions change as time goes by and more results are avaliable. We can guess what caused this or that but the proof is in experience. Ive been visiting this forum for about 7 years now and preferences have changed drastically and opinions of various laudering products and machines. Im pretty stubborn on my use of powder detergent because of my original Neptune disaster which brought me here to begin with and my misunderstanding of the importance of hot water washes and use and care of my machines. It took using powder detergent and hot water primarily to find a solution to the problem of mold and scum building up in the machine and I just dont want to go through that all over again using a liquid detergent when the powders have done so well. I am willing to accept that hot water alone would have done just as much good, as well as not using liquid softner, reducing the amount of detergent etc. I just dont have a reason to try another liquid I suppose is the main reason. Dont fix what isnt broke. The use of STPP is highly recommended as well when avaliable and if you can afford it I recommend Persil. But I am sure there are a good number of other products that are very satisfactory. The primary thing that you can do for your machine is to use hot water washes, keep your machine aired out when not in use if it isnt adequately ventilated. Although I have had some precipitant buildup I still havent proven that use of citric based anything has an effect on that. I will let you all prove that out over time. I do however ask that folks capable of taking your machines inner drum out to inspect do that before claiming success.

I refuse to buy from Land's End. Ordered several things for granddaughters last year, had them shipped directly--OK, but nothing fit right, one was damaged and when her mom took them back to Sears, they refused to accept them, even though that is their policy, refused to give her a Sears gift card, and credited it back to my account. I called them and they claimed it was Sears that made the mistake. She did check back again and they told her the same thing. They refuse to accept Land Ends unless purchased there. Now the catalogs go into the trash. LL Bean is better.