Hi, I returned to gardening a few years ago when I discovered container gardening. I grew in ground 20+ years ago and had large garden at home and a plot away from home. Madame Arthritis put a stop to that -- but now there are containers and raised beds!! Espoma - I love their products. I use Espoma TomatoTone, Espoma Garden Lime, Espoma GreenSand, Espoma Potash, Espoma Garden Manure and Espoma BioTone Plus and many of their other products. I find them a bit pricey but local garden centers have 25% off sales each Memorial and Labor Day so I stock up. In the past I used 5-10-10 or 10-10-10 from anyone of several companies. I have had much better success with Espoma products. DL

WF - No LAFFING! Ok - I'm grinning too, but NO LAFFING. It's really NOT FUNNY. I'm trying to be serious here. . . .STOP IT. ..(grin) I get these STUPID calls this time of year - from friends that went shopping - and didn't have ANY form of protection. . . .I just want to hand them my credit card and tell them to throw the machine out the window. I'm serious. . .tis the season. That and the "what should I buy" stuff with those ads - every freakin' ad that comes out in some da*mn newspaper. . .trying to explain to someone NOT to purchase anything with a celeron - an athalon is fine - watch out for this, that and 15 other things. I go into a complete psychosis at this time of year! No laughing! Comonnnnnnnnnn. . . .(grin) I just wanna play in the dirt! Leave me alone! Buy a set of crayons and write your order! (very sarcastic grin) Speaking of . . .I have to go in tomorrow and fix a corrupted profile from someone who can't stop surfin' . .jeez I'd like to slap some people. . . .and then re-write an app that is misbehaving. . .the users won't use the command buttons right so I have to "disable" some of those in the application. Ya know, how many times do you have to tell people not to "crash" out of a shared database? Want me to draw PICTURES FOR YOU?!?!?! I'm gonna disable the red X. Stopped the corruption in the other ones when I disabled it. No laughing - this time of year stinks for some of us. LOL. . .(sigh!)

Boys are doin like you said Stacy. Wearing me out!! I must be doing something to them too, Drew fell asleep on the supper table! Hunter caught a few winks mid afternoon til his brother just couldn't stand it any longer and jumped on the bed to wake him up! Course I am sure it has nothing to do with both being up before 7 am! They are EARLY birds.

I'm glad you finally got to have the memorial service for your father-in-law. Traveling for any reason can be tiring. In High Regard is such a beautiful color. I hope it will be taller for you next year. I love all your garden shots! Full Grown X Chance Encounter is a pretty seedling, and how great that it gets more buds each year. I've had so many seedlings that started out with a lot of buds, but never attains the original bud count again. Elegant Candy X Vintage Wine is a pretty baby too! Debra