@Lilbit Oh wow, I didn't even realize how some of them have grown quite a lot until I just compared the photos, haha! I wondered too, that's why I was terrified that the others might get affected so I pulled all the leaves right off when I saw the mushiness.. People said that the albinos are harder to survive on their own, I wonder if they're more prone to overwatering or other negative factors as well. @Rina As much as I can see right now, there seem to be one that looks pure yellow with a hint of light green, so it could be an albino pup, but everyone else is normal (did a head count, there are 7 pups in total)

I'm in Pittsburgh (Penn Hills area) and I'm growing several hearts this year: Orange Russian Bull's Heart Kosovo Oxheart Anna Russian Pink Oxheart Rose de l'Omio I got seeds from Trudi at wintersown.org for a small donation, and because I'd never grown many hearts before, I selected a bunch of heart varieties. Altogether I'm growing 32 different kinds of tomatoes. I've been harvesting by the boxful for the last few weeks, although now late blight is looming in our region-- so we'll see how long that lasts. I did have quite a bit of yellowing on wispy leaved varieties, in comparison to much less on plants with sturdier leaves. I associate it with the tremendous amount of rain we've had. I am an organic gardener, so I used Serenade a few times and then tried Actinovate. Both contain proprietary strains of bacteria that occur naturally in the soil; the idea is to protect the leaf of the plant with this beneficial bacteria, so that the leaf is less susceptible to wind-and-water-borne diseases. I noticed a significant difference in yellowing after the use of Actinovate, although it also stopped raining as much in our area at the same time, so my use of Actinovate could have been coincidental. I have been removing the yellow leaves as long as I will not completely defoliate a plant, fearing disease, and many plants have had some yellowing with browning at the edges on the bottom leaves, but it has not seemed to effect production much and they have been going strong for nearly a month since I first noticed it. I am also growing Speckled Roman and Blush, which have wispy foliage. Both had significant yellowing at the bottom branches but seem to have recovered. Coyote seemed to display more than other varieties as well (Coyote is a different species of tomato I believe, and it is also incredibly delicious). Many of my hearts have split just like the ones you show in your photos. You can see one has split in the picture of my tomatoes below. It is due to all of the rain we've been getting. Here are some photos of my tomatoes (most of my hearts are planted in the last row): It seems like many have stopped growing very much because of the weird, cool, and rainy weather. They are pumping out the tomatoes, though! I really love Orange Russian (pictured in my hand above), because of its incredible shape and color. Kosovo has been another standout for me. Bull's Heart was among the first few tomatoes to ripen, and it has been steadily producing sweet, pink fruit for almost a month. I have probably harvested eight fruit from it, which is a record for my hearts. Rose de l'Omio is also very productive although her fruit has just started to ripen. Elisabeth

no it does not stand in landscape, only as shown. The padded fabric area that morphs into the stand is sewn on at the bottom so that makes it impossible to adjust that option. I added my review and the pics with the rollover notes on the amazon page for this case since there were no pics there for it. I like the ability to add the notes on the pictures. Body Glove E-Reader Travel Hard Shell Case, Black (9112601) I used it all day yesterday to see how I liked it and honestly I really do like the case, I thought it would make it heavy but it doesn't and for me it makes it easier to hold. With my arthritis in my hands it was at times hard to hold onto the thin slick PDN, this gives me much more to hold onto which really helps when you have trouble grasping in the first place. It does block the SD card slot but it holds the unit in so securely that sliding off one elastic band does not allow the PDN to fall out, the other 3 hold it in. The unique thing I did not mention is that this case actually has 8 elastic bands that you can choose from so that it will fit various ereaders, most only have the 4. Very nice for those that own more than one type of ereader. From the provided info it holds these: Fits the Amazon Kindle 2, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Sony Reader Daily Edition, Touch Edition and PRS-700 and now they can add the PDN to their list. After having been able to test it out, I would absolutely purchase it. Just wish it came in pink LOL

Hi, I mostly echo @formulaross20 comments. If you can, stick with a unit that uses standard parts - (Fleck and Clack) especially the control valve. That is indeed the heart of the thing. Clack is not allowed to be sold online - only through dealers. Where I disagree is that there IS difference in resin beds. Most softeners are using less expensive and lower quality imported resin, so that battle is mostly over. However, if you are on municipal water that uses chlorine, you want 10% cross-linked resin. I would not buy one from a big box store for the reasons previously mentioned. So there are two general types of carbon filters in this category - upflow and backwashing. In every case you will eventually need to replace the carbon in the filter (or swap out the tank) but the backwashing unit should give you more time between replacing the carbon. There is a different option for carbon filtering - and that's just carbon filtering the drinking water. Then you would use a smaller, replaceable cartridge. I always say my toilets don't need carbon filtered water. I do have one of the Fleck units from Amazon and have been very happy with it. They do have to be properly sized and configured though. I expect to get 15 years out of it at least.