Marie & c2g - Thanks for the advice. I will look up that book. I feel like I should clear up the fact that my land is not a wasteland with no good trees! LOL! We have maples in the front and back yard and scattered around our property. We have a beautiful hickory in the old pasture. On our property we also have lots of other hickories, maples, wild cherries (one that is at least 100 years old - not my estimate but someone more knowledgeable), oaks, aspen, black walnut and many, many more. About 1/3 of our 20 acres is wooded. The trees I got on clearance are ones I am willing to take the risk on. It may look like a bad risk to most of you but I am risking it with my eyes wide open and realistic expectations. If they don't work out I barely lose anything but time and I have that to spare. My lawn will still be beautiful without them and if they do survive - even if only a couple survive - it is worth my time. This is what I ended up buying: 2 Harvest Gold crabapples 1 Yoshino cherry 1 Kanzan cherry 1 Fairview Flame maple Total cost was a bit less then $60. I hope you will wish me good luck with them but I understand everyone who thinks I'm being foolhardy. Thanks again so much for all the useful advice. Karen

I have bought from 4 ebay sellers including philinshelton, bamboobuddy , booo4U and they all promised to me they will be shipping my boo with the soil or at least some soil included. Philinshelton was the only one that came through as promised with no BS. He started shipping with 6x6" boxes to ship the entire one gallon of soil instead of the way it was done before where it was wrapped in a ball of wet newspaper. His plants are priced better than other sellers and very strong. what else is there.oh ya they came two days after I paid him.

Hi, You can have great luck with seeds like heirlooms right here trading on GardenWeb. People offer great seeds with great germination rates. Once in a blue moon you could be disappointed, but most trades are great. On the Seed Exchange Forum, and other exchanges, you will see offers of SASBEs which are people offering up extras of their seeds for postage and a bubble envelope. You can also put together your own seed tradelist and offer what you have for what you want. It is easy to do. I started by going through my commercial pkgs. looking for what ones had enough to offer a trade, and through my yard, collection seeds off of a few of my plants. Remy

I'd think it impossible to make a 120V big machine without ATC. Guess some might handle a cold fill, but then you could end up with a 3+ hour cycle depending on fill temp and target temp. Internal heater or not, a 120V uber-sized machine without ATC is a non-starter. It needs ATC to get as close as possible and then use it's internal heater to give it that extra boost to the target temp (the exception to this rule would be the profile wash cycles available in machines from Sears and Bosch). The uber-machines get challenged when you ask for anything greater than warm (104F). For example on the W4840 when asking for a "Hot" (140F) wash in "Normal" cycle (internal heater not used) with the DHW source set at 131F, the fill temperature ended up being 109F. The washer isn't right next to the DHW tank, but it has a dedicated insulated PEX line that's about 35 ft long and you feel the brass fitting near the hose connection getting hot within 15 seconds of the hot water starting to flow. The problem is your starting with a washer drum and clothing sitting at room temp (68F) or colder (if you've just finished a previous load) and they don't fill with that much water. I've sensed in this case the machine only called on the hot line during the fill. The W4840 seems to have a very good ATC system that does the best it can, but it can't defy physics. If it could be made to fill with more water it would certainly get closer to the target. Checking an old spreadsheet put together once the other data I have shows: LG Steamwasher- Sanitary=158F, Hot=122F, Warm=104F, Cold=86F. Not sure if this source of data came from a user manual, service manual or phone conversation with presales support. The Whirlpool/Kenmore machines are largely undocumented with regard to temperatures. I've seen wildly different accounts regarding these machines and their temperatures the most bizzare being a person once writing that Whirlpool said a "warm" wash could in-fact be as low as 80F.