Susan, New Big Dwarf is one of my personal favorites even though its name is such an oxymoron. Lots of tomatoes have names that make no sense....."Big White Pink Stripe", for example is neither big nor white nor pink, but is rather a medium peach-colored tomato with some faint striping, and "Delicious" was not at all delicious when we grew it here. I guess it is expecting too much to expect for the names of veggie varieties to actually relate to the fruit themselves. I believe all the tomatoes I found at Swallowtail Garden Seeds that are new to the US market this year (Rambling Red Stripe, Pear Drop, Tumbling Tiger, Tumbling Tom Junior Yellow, and the Sweet 'N Neat seri) are from a subsidiary of Australian-based Terranova Seeds. The subsidary is called Vegetalis and it was formed for the purpose of developing vegetable varieties compact enough to grow in pots or small urban gardens and attractive enough to use as ornamentals. I don't know if Terranova/Vegetalis is marketing them directly to the wholesale customer themselves or if they've sold the rights to a seed wholesale producer/seller. Terranova used to have a line of Patio Vegetables and I think that line is now part of Vegetalis. I first saw some of these varieties at Thompson and Morgan, probably last year, and I think this is the first year for all of them to be offered here in the USA, other than Tumbling Tom Red and Tumbling Tom Yellow which also are from Terranova, which have been offered here in the US at least a couple of years. Vegetalis has some wonderful new varieties in the pipeline that are geared towards folks who grow in containers or in small, urban gardens where space is at a premium. Two new compact, bush-type squashes (one a winter squash and the other a zuke) offered either at Park Seed or at Thompson & Morgan this year (I know I saw them last night at one or the other last night while cruising the internet while watching Bedlam) are from Terranova/Vegetalis. They are "Balmoral" and "Buckingham". I haven't searched to see if they're offered anywhere else here in the USA yet. FYI--whenever I see a new veggie with a name that sounds like it came from the UK, it usually was bred by Terranova/Vegetalis, and often I see it first at Thompson and Morgan and then, a year or two later, in the USA. And don't forget Red Robin's "cousins" Orange Pixie and Yellow Canary. I grew them mixed as a 'border' along one side of a raised bed of indeterminates in 2009 and they produced very well. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Vegetalis Brochure Showing Some of Their Products

There's a similar thread on that "other" tomato forum, to which I just contributed the following: One year I had pretty good luck pulling up several whole plants, pruning them a little and hanging them upside down from the (high) ceiling of my garage. I don't think the really hard green ones ripened, but many of the others did, and beautifully (perhaps only the ones showing some blush of color, I don't remember). Since we've moved prematurely into fall -- one weather guy referred to this month as Septober here in Minnesota--and I have a ton of tomatoes on my plants, I'm certainly going to try this method again and hope for the best. *******BTW, the idea that one is not supposed to mention other, non-GW forums here strikes me as rather silly. if there's a good reason for it, perhaps someone could enlighten me. Thanks. ***************

Aww, man, we are DONE for the year except maybe a dinner or two with fried greenies as a side dish, if we can find enough still hanging on not too damaged. I'm so jealous!! Enjoy!!! Edie

I can't see a Bougainvillea lasting long in a hanging basket. I think you'll need to consider it strictly temporary. It wants to be a large woody climber. Passion vines can also grow enormous so again it would be a temporary resident in a basket. Baskets contain even less soil than a decent container so they require frequent watering. If one Googles 'trailing plants for hanging baskets', or similar wording, you'll find a lot of suggestions.