Hi bruggirl100, There are some expert gardeners on these forums, so I'm sure you'll learn a lot. I've received much good advice. This forum is not as active as I wish it would be. Much discussion of heirloom tomatoes on the tomato forum. Although you can talk hybrids if you wish. Lots of us grow at least a few of them, or grew them before we learned about heirlooms. Hot Pepper forum and the vegetable forum have some talk about heirlooms. Just click around and explore. You might also look at the top of any particular forum pages before posting a question. Some of them have an FAQ section that may answer your questions. All the best. Mary

Thanks, so much, you know I'm kidding around right? (Voce sabe que é eu estou brincando, ne?) Bloom is the word for bloom, exactly, or when a plant flowers (Florir que dizer bloom, exato) Yes, I speak very rusty Portuguese, lacking practice. (Sim, eu falo Portuguese com muitos eros, faltando practica). Please be welcome here Brazilians. (Favor, sejao bemvindos aqui Brasileiros). Bye for now!!

LindaC, she's not breast feeding. I know it's "healthier", but like me, she just hated it. I nursed Amanda but Ashley got formula. Although Amanda was a much more contented baby, now Ashley is so healthy that the doctor has said it's a good thing that she has sports physicals and spider bites or he'd never see her. Amanda, however, is allergic to everything in the universe, and is sick several times every winter with colds, the flu, strep throat, tonsillitis, you name it she gets it. It doesn't appear that formula compromised Ashley's immune system much and it didn't seem to help Amanda's. I told Amanda that she had to do whatever SHE was comfortable with and not let people make her feel guilty for using a bottle. I did tell her to get a nipple with a smaller hole, though. Bud is such a pig that he sucks down formula so fast he chokes himself. Annie

Hi..you are right NZ is beautiful (thanks for the compliment) and NZers are a bit slow otherwise they would have already replied by now! You may have seen a lot of NZ on the "Two Towers" albeit digitally enhansed. We do get a bit sick of hobbits who are always getting in our way though.LOL I live in Taranaki on the Western side of NZ. At the moment we have Tom Cruise living in splendour up the coast about 10 miles while he films "The Last Samurai". I own a nursery and have chickens and fruit trees, dogs and zillions of heirloom tomatoes thanks to you guys on the US forum. You have to remember that the US $ is almost double ours so you could come over here and live like royalty. Regards Glenn in NZ