Sorry I haven't been around much lately---but here are the results for my tomatoes---which I covered during a snow fall last Saturday and pulled the crispy blankets off of them Sunday morning---they are still alive. They have some frost damage here and there, but not too bad. My favorites for canning this year: Campbells 1327---bright red, round fruit that resists cracking, and can handle sitting on the counter for several days. Flavor is good, good as a slicer, but since it can sit around it makes a great canner. Determinate Heidi---very productive bright red paste type, no BER, good flavor fresh, medium size. Handled the heat. Determinate Rio Grande---very productive large oval shaped paste type, no BER. Determinate Aker's Pink Plum---beautiful pink paste tomato, smaller than Heidi or Rio Grande, but peels easily and the perfect size for canning whole. Yellow Bell---pretty pale to bright yellow fruit with good flavor, about the size of Aker's Pink plum---on the smaller side, but got a little bigger later in the season, also easy to peel. My favorite slicers: Kellog's Breakfast: This tomato is so beautiful! It is large and tasty and very meaty! It started producing fairly early and is still producing huge bright orange beefsteaks. Burracker's Favorite: my first bi-color---stunning. It ripens to a deep golden color with a red blush on the bottom that extends in striped about half way up. When you cut it open it is golden with red marbling. Very large! Quite productive. Earl's Faux: a pretty pink beefsteak. Very tasty!!! Potato leaf variety that produced better for me than Brandywine. The fruit ranged in size from baseball to soft ball size. Consoluto Genovese: A small, bright red slicer that is fluted/scalloped and looks like a flower when you slice it. Very productive---no larger than a baseball,kind of flattened---looks like a red mini pumpkin. Good flavor and started producing early on---tolerated the heat well. Azoychka: A bright yellow, small beefsteak that is very early. Good flavor---a clean, tart flavor, but not too tart. Productive, fruit ranged in size from ping pong to soft ball sized, with most of the fruit in the middle. Noir de Crimee: A Black tomato a strain of Black Krim. Earlier than Cherokee Chocolate and a bit more productive. Great flavor, a very juicy tomato and beautiful to look at! Coustralee: a large red tomato---later than I like, but earlier than Big Zac, good flavor. It didn't produce very good for me, but I'll give it another try in a better spot. I'll have to do this in installments. Maybe I'll post a link to some photos too. I grew around 25 varieties this year! Later, Tyffanie

i figure if yer zuchs are rotting then yer tomatoes will too. yeah, calcium is usually blamed for it. how do you water em? i've heard that starving/drowning makes the situation worse b/c it can leach calcium out of the soil but quick. i usually be extra careful and work a goodly amount of bone meal into the soil around where the tomato roots will grow. its a good non-soluble source of phos. that the roots can grow into and hook up a nice boost for flowering and its got a lot of calcium innit. then again, half the time i grow in containers so i water regularly and don't lose calcium do to the whole starve/drown thing. dolemite lime is a good source of calcium but changes soil pH. i dunno of any good sources of calcium that don't involve really working it into the soil and you want to see if you can save the plants you have...

When I was looking at different brands, I found different manufacturers recommend different things. Almost all the mattresses I looked at are at least 10" thick. Seems like no one recommends a regular box spring. Most sell some kind of base (which will work on your bed, Beagles), which appears to be a fabric covered wood frame, saying no solid support because the latex mus "breathe". My 35 year old latex mattress has been on a box spring and apparently hasn't suffered from lack of breathing! Some recommended a bunkie board slat system as long as you have a center leg/support for Queen size or larger. I thought that's what Zenhaven required and went to a lot of trouble to make that work with my antique iron bed, double converted to queen. Then, I was reading recently and I think it says it requires a solid base, so perhaps your box spring would work fine. Since mine is just a guest room with fewer than probably 20 guest nights per year, I'm not going to worry about it. But if I was young and using it nightly, I'd probably be concerned about voiding the warranty, if I did install it incorrectly. Bumble, the great thing about latex is the mattress allows you to turn easily and the whole bed doesn't move, so no disturbing a co-sleeper. If using a slat system on a queen or larger, you would need a center board/legs to support the weight of the mattress. It's much heavier than a non-latex mattress.

@jilly FYI…(it works for me.) “The 2022 American College of Gastroenterologists (ACG) guidelines recommended left lateral decubitus (LLD) sleeping position as one of the lifestyle modifications of GERD management with unequivocal evidence[5]. However, although it is common practice for physicians to educate GERD patients to sleep with the head elevated to prevent nocturnal acid reflux, there is a lack of interest in recommending that patients sleep on the left side. Recent evidence has shown that sleeping with the head elevated and lying to the left side reduced gastric acid exposure and improved nocturnal GERD symptoms and [6]. This improvement can be explained by the pathophysiology and anatomy of the faulty gastroesophageal junction in GERD patients. Lying on the right side would position the esophagus inferior to the gastroesophageal junction, further precipitating reflux and promoting longer acid clearance time[7,8]. This systematic review aims to evaluate and consolidate accumulating evidence regarding the effect of LLD sleep position on nocturnal symptoms in GERD patients.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10643078/#:~:text=Recent%20evidence%20has%20shown%20that,gastroesophageal%20junction%20in%20GERD%20patients.