I agree with Amber. They are good, but not a miracle. You will still have pests and diseases. But you should have vigorously growing plants that have a better shot at withstanding them. Pros: (1) It is nice not to have to weed at all. (2) If you will follow directions, you can grow a lot of things very well in the Earthbox. Sweet peppers and especially eggplants do particularly well for me in Earthboxes - I get much higher yields than I do planting them in-ground. (3) As long as you use the right kind of soil and fill the Earthbox according to directions, you can't overwater - so no root rot. (4) If you're careful to keep the slits in the plastic mulch as small as possible, there's very little soil splashing on the plants during rains. This reduces (but does not eliminate!) diseases. (5) No nematodes. (6) If you use dolomitic limestone per the instructions, you shouldn't have too much trouble with blossom end rot on your peppers and tomatoes. (If you can't get dolomitic limestone, get some other source of calcium and magnesium.) (7) Except for the plastic mulch covers, they hold up well to sunlight and weather. My oldest Earthboxes are about 7 years old and have been outside all that time. Although the long sides have bowed out slightly, they are still good working condition. Cons: (1) If you use the wrong kind of soil or fertilizer, or don't fill/plant according to directions, the results may not as good. (2)The support system they sell is completely inadequate for large (indeterminate) tomato plants. It is pretty marginal for the larger determinate tomatoes, too. Unless you are growing true bush-type tomatoes, you'll need to construct your own supports. However, the support works fine for eggplants, peppers, etc. (3) If you grow tomatoes in the summer, the Earthbox does NOT hold enough water for two large indeterminate tomato plants in intense heat. Even with daily watering, the Earthbox will dry out and your tomatoes will experience water stress. You can either water twice daily, spring for the automatic watering system, or plant only one indeterminate tomato per Earthbox. But if you grow your tomatoes in the winter, I doubt you'd have this problem. (4) The plastic mulch cover breaks down fast in our intense sunlight. One season is all you should expect. Sometimes the elastic falls apart before the season ends and you have to try to tape it down for the rest of the season, which is annoying. May as well order some extra covers with your boxes, so you don't have to pay shipping for them next year. (5) The soil/fertilizer kits are usually a rip-off compared to big box store pricing, especially if you are getting more than one Earthbox. I'd price it out before ordering. (6) Earthboxes are not good for plants that like to dry out between waterings, like some herbs. Because of the support and summer watering issues with indeterminate tomatoes, I use my Earthboxes for eggplants and peppers in the summer, and lettuces in the cool months. In the past, I have put my tomatoes in the ground. If I have a LOT of organic matter worked in, the nematodes don't keep me from getting a crop. I will be trying my tomatoes in new raised beds this year. (Crossing my fingers!) Your mileage may vary - the above is just based on my personal experience.

Old River Cabinets is a custom company like Geppetto is with pricing about the same. Old river does not have a book and is a pain to price on the fly because you have to know every little upcharge that is based in their computer system they only have. Geppetto on the other hand has a book with cabinets every 3" with countless modifcation charges that I can apply to any cabinet to make it what ever size I want as I stated in the original post of modifying depth width or height in any combination. If they do not have a cabinet I can start with I have to fax in what I want and wait for a quote back. 3" increments just gives you an easier way to arrive at an exact cost. I can stack them verticaly, I can join them horizontaly up to 8' long for a custom look when they are installed. I can change the doors add a drawer anything you can think of. I can custom color match the fireplace which we are doing. I can custom color match the door sample which has the perfect color wood she wants which she has looked for 2 years to find. She is very picky when it comes to color. Geppetto will make anything I can dream. They are custom just in a manner that is easier to price as a designer who is not a employee of theirs. My overhead excluding gas is $3,000 a month. This business is about competing with the prices of the next guy. Lowes and Home Depot who's cabinet companies they represent sell approx half of all the cabinets in the US are the largest competition. 50% markups on semi custom products are about what you have to do to compete on price but then you can not compete on being as established as as they are when you are self employed per say. A typical set of semi custom cabinets cost the dealer 4-6k so a mark up would be 2-3k per transaction. Now since most people want to go with the established to big to fail company they will only buy with you if you give them a deal they can not turn down. So you drop your margin to do it if it is possible. Or you have contractors that want to work with you where the end price to customer is close in price to Lowes and Home Depot but they want money the owner is not aware of which makes you cut your margin in half and share it with the contractor. So either way you slice it I sell cabinets for the average kitchen that are all plywood dove tail full overlay soft close full extension for 6k most of the time and make $1,200 if you are lucky! So a custom kitchen which takes about twice as much time to figure out as there are many more ways you can layout the kitchen so you do multiple layouts before you find the perfect one for the customer has 400% more profit in it then the semi custom prices of the big box stores. And according to multiple posts on here the competition in supposed "custom" is 50k and up! Where I would be a total price of half that! I was not trying to make this about me I was more agreeing with the title of the thread of sticker shock shock. I have other people who buy fix and sell condo's and town houses here in the dc area where the cabinets cost me 900 - 1200 and I mark it up the same 50% to stay competitive. That translates to 450 profit. But wait.... that customer comes from a granite company that wants money for referring the business. So when you give them a 15% discount the profit on those kitchens goes to less then 200 including in home delivery costs. The industry forces you to work on percent markups. You spend as much time on a small job like that as you do on a semi custom kitchen which pays 1,200 or a custom one which takes a little longer that I doubled the price like other companies do I would make 25-50k on one kitchen? And people want to say that is the way you stay in business because you have overhead? Sticker Shock Shock. I agree. I must be to practical. I just wanted to give some context to the prices and point out that the orignial poster was correct to be shocked in my opinion and state some facts as to why it is true. Antss is right that it does take money to sustain a showroom. But you do not have to rip off your customer to do it by doubling the price of custom cabinets. How much money do you need to make on one job to stay in business when you are talking about profits upwards of 35k per transaction?

Dear Patti, You could also try Ebay, just enter "blue berry or fruit stickers" into the search area, and if there are any available they will come up. You may have to try this for several days before you get a response for your item. Since my son rode BMX I had a HARD time trying to find stickers (besides the few offered at scrapbook stores and they were almost all alike.) that had anything to do with kind of the bikes he rode (his bike alone was over $2000.00) with all their brand names and special light weight parts. Ebay was one of the few places I finally found the stickers I was searching for, but I did PAY for them. You had to include the shipping cost along with the price of the stickers. OUCH! But those were the stickers that went with his life, and I could not find them anywhere else so I had no choice but to buy them there. I do NOT recommend this for more common everyday stickers, but if you REALLY need a paticular sticker that is a good source. Penny

For anyone that lives in the San Fernando Valley - there is an awesome scrapbook store in Woodland Hills called Scrapbook Safari. They have everything that anyone can ever dream of having - including Florida Everglades things! Their web site is www.ScrapbookSafari.com Enjoy!