[QUOTE] "We have washboard, wash-outs, mud holes & need to re-distribute excess gravel." willow wisp, As a former maintainer of a large, sloped gravel driveway with tons of run off issues, surface grading will not solve the first three problems you mention. The ONLY solution is to dig the pothole out. Otherwise you will continue to have washout problems at the same spot. For many years I used a York rake on a variety of tractors including CUTs and kept having to redistribute the gravel over and over, but then I read a post on TBN that described how potholes have to be dug out and how the road needs a slight crown for drainage. And it worked. What works best to dig out the potholes, is a boxblade with the scarifiers turned down. Once the potholes have been removed, almost any method of redistributing the gravel will work (rake, boxblade with the scarifiers turned up, DR grader, etc). Unfortunately--or fortunately--I learned this after many years of a lot of effort . . . and then I paved the driveway. Cheers JDFANATIC

Happy Adenium growing and everything else from west coast of Canada (Vancouver Island). Great group of individuals of this forum site. Very friendly and extremely knowledgeable. Rick

Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, is almost always monoclinous (hermaphroditic) but occasionally is andromonoecious (having male and hermaphroditic flowers).

Thank you, everyone, for the welcome! Roselee, I looked at your garden and it is beautiful! Phoenix, I was on the fence about starting tuberosa and think I'll go ahead. I have an idea for overwintering it. Omar, I see you like to trade too. :) Wantonamara, maybe we'll "bump" into each other occasionally on a topic. lol Lou, yes the gardens at SFASU are awesome. I hope to attend the plant sale this fall. Once again, thank you all for a warm welcome. LaDena