That is odd DtD...I did upgrade my firefox a few months ago, I don't know if that could be it. Claire..this is what I got when I click on the collapse button...a new window that said.. GardenWeb Sorry, the file you requested could not be found. For a directory of what's available at GardenWeb, please visit our home page. Or, you can use this form to search the entire contents of GardenWeb.

Hey, welcome home! I did the same thing...stayed away for 30 years and then came back. There is a huge advantage to buying an old homeplace. We have one of those, too. The first recorded ownership is dated 1874...not really so long ago, but you'd have to see where it is to appreciate the guts it took to do it. I have learned that either the first or second owner had a blind wife. (First one didn't stay long) We had wondered why the well and ice house were located so close to the back door of the old log cabin. Anyway, the garden is very rock free. Of course, we had to pick them all up out of the fence row and haul them away. LOL I had plans for the fence row on the north side of the garden. I suspect most of your plants will be happy to move to warmer country. There are a few exceptions that I can think of. One is rhubarb...not large on most peoples list, but I really haven't had much luck growing the red kind here. The old green one will do fine, but the red likes colder country. Some apples do better farther north, but there are those that love it here...such as Arkansas Black. I have a love/hate relationship with that apple. It keeps in my celler for months...in fact has to be stored before it's fit to eat. Seems to be totally resistant to Cedar Apple rust and produces every year. Winesap and Starks Krimson Delicious are also doing well. Have not found a yellow apple that does well here because of the cedar apple rust problem. We don't want to spray more than twice per year, so that limits our selection. All of the berries will do well here. Brown rot is a problem here with the excessive humidity, so those fruits that have a problem with it are off our list. The old half wild concord grape does well. I would check in with your local University Extension Agent for lists of plants. You will find some plants that you couldn't grow in zone 4...so it's a trade off.

That's great! I was hoping someone wanted to try it. I've gotten so much from this forum, and the flylady method, and now I'm looking forward to the Challenge complimenting what I've learned and accomplished so far. I'm stuck too. There are small areas of my house I'm satisified with, and there are areas of my home that just leave me cold. After six years, I shouldn't have that just- moved-in look in my house. Well, it's not quite that bad, but there is a lot of room for improvement. Now that gardening season is over, and the last 9 days were spent purging, organizing, and cleaning, I'm getting antsy to finish projects that need finishing, and like you said, making the home feel more complete. Two Saturdays ago when I first clicked on this forum, I checked out the flylady link. Signed up for that and started following it the best I could. It's pretty amazing how blocking off tasks in 5-15 minutes chunks, and allowing myself to take breaks instead of the all-or-nothing approach I used to take, propeled me to get as far as I have in a short amount of time. I was also surprised to learn how much procrasting and perfectionism are intertwined, which also explains why most of the DIY projects that I started are 80% complete. I now know that I didn't finish those projects because once finished, I would have to face that maybe it didn't turn out as perfect as I had hoped. Perfectionism rears it's ugly head again. Actually, that realization just became complete as I was typing this. Well, I have still have time to get a few things done before Monday, and I'm getting pretty excited at the thought of the house being in satisfactory order that I may actually Want to have company around the holidays instead of dreading having company.

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