Hi, I am a part of my agricultural class at school and we created a fully indoor, self-sustained hydroponics system. However, as we are a public charter school, we have limited resources and are looking for donations. anything you can offer would be amazing. we can offer payment for shipping or SASBE. If you consider making a donation, please email me at makenziejordyn@yahoo.com Thank you so much, Jordyn P.S. We are just now learning how to start from seed, so any kind of donations you make would be appreciated. Plant sales will be used to help fund the school and excess produce will be donated to a local soup kitchen. :D

You guys gotta quit coming up with stuff I want to plant! I am running out of room. ana you cabbages look lovely! Great, tasty looking photos. Dianne, you made me realize what the big TO-DO is with veggie wraps. I thought the were for wimps, but your photo and description is YUMMY!! I gotta try. I am a big meat n taters kinda gal but I do love new ways to eat veggies. I always loved most veggies raw, for instance, I never met a cooked carrot that I could eat! i love their flavor in soups and stews, but I don't eat em cooked. Raw? I'll eat a colander full! Now cabbages, I love steamed, in stir fry, as garnish, in salad, golumpki's(cabbage rolls). Here's a good recipe for cabbage n noodles. Steamed cabbage, crisp-tender, egg noodles, in a skillet together add salt n peppa' melted butter (SORRY I LOVE BUTTER TOO) It's ok to let edges of noodles and cabbage brown slightly in butter....before serving, stir in a couple spoons of cottage cheese, let melt a bit...sprinkle with paprika...YUM is great with roasted pork or chops.

Potted Cordylines over here are on sale for around £5 each for a decent plant of say 2ft in height, once in the ground they romp away and look very similar to a 'proper palm'. A tree company a few miles from where I live sells mature Jelly Palms at £699!! as well as Dracaenas, Agaves and Phormiums and other cold hardy palms and exotics. Tree ferns are now 'the UK in thing to grow' and can also be found in large DIY stores locally. Other 'true palms' such as Jelly and Chinese Windmills can be seen in London as the city areas create a micro-climate that provide good conditions for them. The Edinburgh palms are probably growing at the worlds most northerly limit according to what I've just read. Cordylines are also known as Torbay Palms in the UK and have been grown for decades in the south coastal towns around Torquay, and in many others, so much so it has been adopted as the tourist symbol for the Torbay area. Canary Isl palms also grow there. As I said, in almost every place here you will find a Cordline growing somewhere and maybe other true palms if you are lucky. Gill Here is a link that might be useful: palms in Scotland's Logan Gdns.

I always plant Packman, and I get the seed from Willhite. My favorite new broccoli variety is Piricicaba although I have a heck of a time remembering how to spell it. Three of the 12 or 15 Piricicaba plants I put into the ground last March or April are still in the ground, still alive and still producing small side shoots. (This variety doesn't produce big heads.) So, it is both the most heat-tolerant and cold-tolerant broccoli I ever have seen, having survived temperatures as high as 115 degrees during the summer and as low as 16 degrees so far this winter. In 2012, I am going to plant half Packman and half Piricicaba. Packman never makes heads as large as some other broccoli varieties, but year in and year out it is the most consistently productive broccoli variety I've ever grown, although I think Piricicaba may give it a run for its money. Likely I'll always plant both Packman and Piricicaba. Packman will produce large spring yields and I can freeze a lot of that since it produces so much over a short period of time, and Piricicaba will keep us in smaller amounts of fresh broccoli over a longer time period. I'm going to link the Piricicaba description from Bountiful Gardens, since that is the source from whom I obtained the seed. I've noticed it is available from more seed companies this year, including Baker Creek, Nichols and FedCo. I think 2 of those 3 companies had it last year as well. By the way, for anyone searching for heat-tolerant veggie, herb and flower varieties, both Willhite and Bountiful Gardens carry a lot of varieties that are exceptionally tolerant of hot weather. Here is a link that might be useful: Piricicaba Broccoli