zackey - you can pre-soak the seeds if you wish but you sure don't have to do it. Have grown beets for over 40 years and never once soaked them first. :) Main thing about growing them is that each "seed" is actually multiple seeds so space them accordingly and you will still have to thin them a couple of times as they grow. Dave

To answer your question Iris Gal, no I am not starting a business. I'm just someone who loves Iris's and lost most of mine this summer. Can't stand the thought of not being surrounded by their beauty this coming Spring. Walter could you please email me and tell me more about your iris's? I am pleased to know that some of them are your babies. However I have no ideal which ones they are. I look farward to hearing from you. Best Regards Marian AKA Lovely Iris marianwinnsboro@hotmail.com

Vee, you haven't missed much from never eating in a McDonald's, KFC, etc. The draw to such places is, I think, the predictability -- you know pretty much what you are getting when you enter such establishments, no matter that it's cardboard food, in both taste and detritus. However, there are subtle differences in predictability in such franchises, from nation to nation especially, but also from state to state in the US, sometimes. A Maine McDonald's will sell their local favorite, the lobster roll, while an Oklahoma McDonald's will have, say, a special barbecue pork (boneless) riblet sandwich. In the opposite place these sandwiches would languish and wouldn't stay on the menu. The rubbish angle: Well, at least the old-fashioned fish 'n' chips shops recycled out-of-date newspapers. But I wonder about the ingestion of newsprint ink; didn't some of it dissolve and get onto the food? I once saw a blubberburger on a menu in Alaska, but I didn't try it because I was afraid that it would contain exactly that: whale blubber. Scotch Eggs in the US used to be more common than nowadays. They were often a staple of school cafeterias, which generally meant poorly prepared and tasteless. Only about one kid in five really enjoyed the things; the rest grumbled and tore off the sausage part and mashed the egg part into mush so that it would look like they had at least tried to eat it. As with anything that gets a poor reputation, the Scotch egg lost favor, I'm afraid, in the US. I laugh at the fried onions at English BBQs because the English, who eschew garlic, do love their onions it seems. I had one English flatmate who seemed forever to be 'baking' (her term) onions -- nothing but onions in a pan in the oven. I have to admit, though, I got used to the aroma and was more than once glad to partake of the onions.

Dave did it before. can't remember how it worked out.... but just asking why YOU it won't work. just asking thanks WELL I DID SEVERAL MORE OTHER DAY.. hate just thinning when I have blank spots like I mentioned on this forum before I may have mentioned before only planted some ky wonder pole beans in the ground and the one row half have died. oh also put. two Roma tomatoes in ground. Hopefully next yr. can replace some of that soil with new soil since the small plot here used to be graveled.. also not sure if I mentioned that my best yield for posted veggies have been the peppers jar, banana and unfortunately some hot peppers that were labeled banana peppers.. cucumber not too bad in galvanized was tub ' I mentioned before only planted some ky wonder in the ground and the one row half have died. hopefully next yr. houses sheds...I had such in those large plastic garbage cans,,,, Local small produce store had them as 6pk transplants for close to $3.. I thought. that was ridiculous. since that 50 cents a plant....I can prob buy the single finished beet for that. put another 4 ft tank put those beet seed between 2 layers of toilet paper than a lil soil. any certain nutrients I need to add?? I usually use "Garden Tone or Plant tone or JOBES any other. I also have alfala Meal, kelp , rock phosphate but used it yet on those pots.... SINCE we are having lots of rain predicted. how often do I need to add fertilizer... since most everything is in containers.. I use only water from sky till containers run dry... anyone do the hydroponics for beets? wanna try that method sooN. the KRATKY sorry to be so long post THANKS i