In one of her books Elizabeth Lawrence wrote that she had several friends who had witch's gardens. She described acquiring water hemlock in her garden and then mourning its loss -- although it does have a certain sinister grace it's very poisonous. Probably no more so than oleander or castor bean, but if you read descriptions of it you begin to feel that if you look at it you'll fall over dead. Here's one for the horror garden genre: a standard dwarf bearded iris called Fingertips.

I have been a busy bee planting my lilies. The happy part is that I had plenty of room for them. In fact I could plant more, I still have room. There are lots of extras. On the bags that had small bulbs, and I mean really small by Lily Garden standards, there were 5-7 bulbs each instead of the three that I ordered. So those should clump up fast. But I don't think those particular types make big bulbs anyway. Now I have to go dig up three rose bushes so that I can plant the rest of the lily bulbs in the spot the three were. One is deffinately getting transplanted, probably two. The third gets tosssed. This would be at the very back of my front yard rose garden that I call Floribundaville. I already have quite afew lilies planted along just alittle further in there. I want to increase the lily section as I love the way it looks with the roses in front and the lilies in back. The fact that its on an uphill slope makes it all come together and easy to see if your standing on the sidewalk.

Well, from what I've read, they really do work. Either I didn't get damping off, or it worked. I think I did get it on the one seedling, as I saw fungus growing at it's base. I sprinkled more cinnamon and then did the garlic remedy, too. To begin with, I sprinkled cinnamon all over the top of the soil before the seeds germinated and added more here and there after that when I thought it might need it. For the garlic, I did what Doug Green on his simplegiftsfarm.com said to do. Crush several garlic cloves into about an inch or so of simmering water in a saucepan. Simmer for a few minutes and then cool to lukewarm and water your seedlings with it. It stinks, but worked for me =:) Garlic is a natural fungicide.

Stacy: It all depends on the chocolate you use. Some white chocolates become hard and brittle when cooled again and so will your sauce. Some chocolates combined with the cream and cheese will stay smooth and you'll have a cool -- but thicker -- sauce to use. A little soft heat will make it pourable again. Joe