puglvr As you can see veggies did allright. Not the same luck for the bananas, star fruit, mango. How is your mango doing? Any good signs? I am already considering a replacement if mine don't make it. Cindee I found out that all the root crops got sweeter with the cold. I can taste slight differences with the various color carrots, being the strongest the darker ones, then the oranges and next the white ones being milder. Soon it will be another tomato season, something to look forward. Susannah Tatsoi is more like spinach. I like the ways it grows upright, so the leaves are kept cleaner and is easy to harvest, is also crisper. The other vegetables in the picture were some giant Chinese cabbages, I had a laundry basket full with some heads. And also I harvested cabbage Richi, that one is more like small bok choi. I am going to grow a new kind of ground cherries. I will let you know how they do. Christine Any recipe that calls for spinach you can substitute Tatsoi. I made a fritatta with eggs, , mushrooms, parmesan cheese. In a salad with dried cranberries, blue cheese and a tarragon vinaigrette. Made minestrone and add the Tatsoi at the end, to keep a nice green color. The funny thing is that I made the frittata for company and I didn't tell them it was Tatsoi, they all love it and thought it was spinach. Willy

I only planted one, since "Sunflower" is supposed to be a self-fertile cultivar. However, I did add two pawpaw seedlings to my order from Reeseville Ridge Nursery out of Wisconsin this spring just to see how they'll do and because they were only a few dollars each. Right now it's about 1.5 ft tall, so it's added about 10" since it was planted. The first year it only added an inch or two, but last year took off pretty well. I'm hoping it adds as much if not more this year as the root system becomes really established.

I think I have about 2 inches of shredded paper then maybe 10 inches of a mix of paper and the food scraps, dirt, leaves etc. then a cardboard topper. I thought avocado may take a while so I just put a few peelings. The rest I threw in the garden. I have the room for 24+ inches but don't have 24 inches of stuff in the bin now. I also have some old seed starting soil I need to dispose of and may add that to the bin instead of the trash. Thanks for the advice and encouragement. I was worried to buy worms! I think I am getting one pound from these people plus some vermicompost bedding (it costs a couple extra $ for the vc) http://www.greenmountainsoil.com/buyworms.html Karen Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.greenmountainsoil.com/buyworms.html

Enzaenza, I did an exhaustive search of vanities recently, mainly because I needed it to be 18" deep and most stock vanities sold online or anywhere for that matter are 21". You will pay more for a custom piece. But if you shop around, you can find deals. The vanity I purchased at one retailer was $700 more at another retailer. Like you, I was looking for furniture style (with feet) and didn't want it to look like a box with feet attached as an afterthought. Something else that complicated my search was decorative side panels. Because the side of my vanity is the first thing you see when entering the bathroom, the side had to look good, IOW not a flat panel. One company, Wellborn I think, was going to charge me $425 a side to swap out the slab side panel for a decorative one. Crazy. I ended up ordering a 48 X 18 Shiloh vanity from their Furniture Style Vanity line and am very pleased with it. Inset style, soft close, full extension, custom glazed finish etc. I can post a picture of my new vanity, if you like. Here's a link to the Shiloh vanities: Shiloh furniture style vanities