I did the same as Jenn everyone that sells mulch near me has wrong sizes as well. I can get the greenall but have to drive 45mins to an hour lol. To me not worth the time. So I now settled on the earthgro. I screened my first batch last night. From a 2cf bag I lost less than half a 5 gal bucket worth to oversize bark. Doesn't seem to bad to me. There was a good amount of sapwood though maybe a qtr of bucket that I had to pick out so far but again worth the effort at $4 per 2cf vs 10$ + 3.85(gas per gal at 11mpg in my guzzler truck)+$5(bridge toll) for one bag of greenall. So that's easy math to me lol. I can get at least 5x as much earthgro bags. The only downside is picking out the sapwood. Even then I'll just watch for nitrogen issues after I get to lazy to pick it all out. lol. I still think it will be better than potting mix. I'm still go one do potting mix as well just for comparison since I have multiples of each type of pepper, so I know for next season. This post was edited by flipback23 on Thu, Mar 6, 14 at 11:03

I received a great box of goodies from Cathys1951!!!! She sent the following seeds: nepeta (catmint), lithops, chocolate Joe Pye weed, unknown sedum, calendula, sumac, yellow tansy, lanceleaf coreopsis, nicotiana, ladybells, cinnamon fern, globe amaranth, liatris, sneezeweed, yellow rose, & Phillipine lily. As if that wasn't enough she also sent this cute little pot scrubber set that the bottom looks like a pot & the top one looks like a flower. She also sent a little kit with pumpkin seeds, soil, etc. for kids (which my daughter has claimed), a weave basket planter, 2 pretty flower pot stakes with birds on them, a bag of 25 plant labels, & what I needed most, a waterhose attachment (I'm not kidding either. The one this one immediately replaced was duct taped because the trigger was broken). Thank you so much!!!

that is sooo cool!! WOW!! a lavender grow kit!! :')) now talla wants to know what color your wings are?? :')) i said i would ask you :')) now i just got this in the mail, almost made me bawl like a baby!! its so touching!! i hope it don't make anyone mad, or anything She jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said: 'How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I see him?' The surgeon said, 'I'm sorry. We did all we could, but your boy didn't make it.' Sally said, 'Why do little children get cancer? Doesn't God care any more? Where were you, God, when my son needed you?' The surgeon asked, 'Would you like some time alone with your son? One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes, before he's transported to the university.' Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said good bye to son. She ran her fingers lovingly through his thick red curly hair. 'Would you like a lock of his hair?' the nurse asked. Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of the boy's hair, put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally. The mother said, 'It was Jimmy's idea to donate his body to the University for Study. He said it might help somebody else. 'I said no at first, but Jimmy said, ' Mom , I won't be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom ..' She went on, 'My Jimmy had a heart of gold. Always thinking of someone else. Always wanting to help others if he could.' Sally walked out of Children's Mercy Hospital for the last time, after spending most of the last six months there. She put the bag with Jimmy's belongings on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was difficult. It was even harder to enter the empty house. She carried Jimmy's belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair to her son's room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room exactly where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, cried herself to sleep. It was around midnight when Sally awoke. Lying beside her on the bed was a folded letter. The letter said: 'Dear Mom , I know you're going to miss me; but don't think that I will ever forget you, or stop loving you, just 'cause I'm not around to say 'I Love You'. I will always love you, Mom , even more with each day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to adopt a little boy so you won't be so lonely, that's okay with me. He can have my room and old stuff to play with. But, if you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn't like the same things us boys do. You'll have to buy her dolls and stuff girls like, you know. Don't be sad thinking about me. This really is a neat place. Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me around some, but it will take a long time to see everything. The angels are so cool. I love to watch them fly. And, you know what? Jesus doesn't look like any of his pictures. Yet, when I saw Him, I knew it was Him. Jesus himself took me to see GOD! And guess what, Mom ? I got to sit on God's knee and talk to Him, like I was somebody important. That's when I told Him that I wanted to write you a letter, to tell you good bye and everything. But I already knew that wasn't allowed. Well, you know what Mom ? God handed me some paper and His own personal pen to write you this letter I think Gabriel is the name of the angel who is going to drop this letter off to you. God said for me t o give you the answer to one of the questions you asked Him 'where was He when I needed him?' 'God said He was in the same place with me, as when His son Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all His children. Oh, by the way, Mom , no one else can see what I've written except you. To everyone else this is just a blank piece of paper. Isn't that cool? I have to give God His pen back now He needs it to write some more names in the Book of Life. Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for supper. I'm sure the food will be great. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I don't hurt anymore the cancer is all gone.. I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore and God couldn't stand to see me hurt so much, either. That's when He sent The Angel of Mercy to come get me. The Angel said I was a Special Delivery! How about that? 'When you're down to nothing, God is up to something.' lots of love!! many hugs medo! i think we have one more box left to hear about, is that right?? from momcat?

Many college and univ. grads who walk out on the streets looking for work are carrying a heavy load of college debt. Some time ago, when there was talk of cutting back on support for post-secondary education in our province, including grants to students, I called the local Home Builders' Association to suggest that they might like to call their members of the legislature asking that such support continue. The office staff asked what that idea had to do with them, suggesting that it was of minimal interest. I said that if a kid grads. school carrying half of a mortgage load of debt ... how long did they think that it would be before s/he could give any consideration to buying a home? That idea appeared to not have occurred to them. I think that many parents who pay the full load of the education cost are, in many cases, doing their kid no favour. If the young person attending post-secondary education has spent hours flipping hamburgers, landscaping, etc., to pay part of the costs of the education, it seems to me that there's a good possibility that s/he may value the education more (and be less inclined to spend a substantial portion of Year I substantially dedicated to partying) ... ... than if Mommy and Daddy are carrying the whole load. Often the parents who do that also showered benefits upon the youth while growing up, as well, so that they scarcely knew the meaning of the word, "No". I am troubled also by the reported situation that many young people in university are needing substantial mental support, in that they have had their schedule set up for them, been hauled here and there and not had to manage their affairs during their younger years - had been coddled. Insulated from the realities of life. Now there seems to be an increase in youthful suicides, as well. What a shame, when so many of our kids have had so many benefits. Some time ago in another thread there was a discussion of raising kids and I said that it seemed to me that one of my major tasks as a parent was to train/help my offspring learn how to and prepare for their independence. As a kid of 10 when World War II started, for many of us, in 1939, and our farmhands went to war, I had lots of chores to do from an early age. When I hear so much talk of teen-age rebellion, it seems to me that if more young people had an increasing level of chores and other responsibilities as they grow, and knew that when they discharged some responsibilities reasonably well, there would be more provided, along with their opportunities for self-expression and making their own decisions, there'd be much less of it. Good wishes for increasing wisdom in the management of both your income and your assets. ole joyful