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

It sounds as though you should plant whatever you want to look at, while at the same time, being mindful of what could have an impact on your yard, as far as future shade, blocking your views, re-seeding, etc.. I would certainly go for shade from the SW for her, a mix of low growing shrubs and small trees, maybe evergreen, with flowers and fruits, and fall color, that won't block views for the property lines, and things that enhance the view from both your yard and her house. I am thinking of things like magnolia species, bald cypress, beech (purple or green), a grouping of deciduous magnolias, deciduous hollies, various spring flowering understory trees and shrubs such as Juneberry, fringe tree, itea, calycanthus or redbud, the more rare species dogwoods (pagoda, gray, red- or yellow-twig), various viburnums, summer to fall flowering plants such as vitex, franklinia, stewartia, gordonia, sourwood, abelias, caryopteris, clethra, bottlebrush buckeye, woody sages, camellias, witch hazel or native azaleas, etc.. I could go on, but.... Keep in mind that someone will have to water things, whether her or you. Setting up an easy watering system of temporary drip hoses around trees (for 2-3 years) might be a time and effort saver for all concerned, as connecting a hose, or two, to the end of a run of drip hose is relatively easy, while dragging hoses from tree to tree and spot to spot is a pain! Making beds or berms, and groups of trees, which you mulch, will both pull the look together and unify the yard, and make watering issues simpler. As I am sure you have already thought of...

I'm looking for any carnivorous seed or plant.I'm hoping to start collecting and experimenting with growing them.I can travel anywhere in San Antonio to pick them up and exchange them if anyone is willing.I currently have a bunch of lime seeds some lime plants from a tree in my area i've been using for seed currently brought up in great condition in 2 liter bottles currently 8 days old. Burpee brand Double feature hybrid cucumber seeds (left over from paper package bought at home depot) Burpee fordhook hybrid watermelon seeds (left over from paper package bought at home depot) Burpee best boy hybrid tomato seeds (left over from paper package bought at home depot) Burpee hearts of gold cantaloupe seeds (left over from paper package bought at home depot) Jalapeño and Green pepper seeds ive been saving.. 3 seeds were used from each packet You can have them all and as many lime seeds as you like if u have any young plant u can part with.I figure its worth a shot my 23rd birthday is on the 19th and ill get a drosera or flytrap with my gift money but I figure ill try here first. lets talk

trudi d and engineeregarden Do you both do wintersowing outside?? trudi d are you the same trudi d (Davidoff) on Wintersown.org? Just saw this. Yes that's me. I only start my tomatoes outside. I think I started WSing toms a winter or two after I started writing about my experiences, so that would be nearly seven or eight years ago. WS is based on any plant's ability to reseed. Because toms reseed in my garden I wanted to give it a try. Well, I did, and it worked like charm. I never went back to starting toms in the windowsill after that. You have to be smart in choosing what varieties to WS. If you live in zone five you're not going to get ripe fruits with a 90DTM tomato--it's not logical. So, for short seasons it's going to work better to choose tomatoes with names that sound acceptable to a cool climate or short-season garden like Speckle Siberian, Cold Set, Early Girl, Mountain Princess, etc. Look for varieties close to or under 70DTM. Yesterday was Winter Solstice and the beginning of the Winter Sowing season. I didn't do any tomatoes yesterday--just my Solstice Sow seed sets, but usually very early on in season I work with trees and shrubs, in January I do my perennials, biennials and hardy annuals, and then by the middle of February I start to work with frost intolerant varieties. WS tom seedlings can take frost down to about 27, 28 degrees which is fine by me as that's about the norm for February lows here. Well, though I didn't sow any, for Solstice I still did have a wonderful tomato experience here--the postman brought me a very fat mailer from Geneva, NY--it was from the Plant Genetics Resource Unit of the USDA/ARS, they granted my request and graced WinterSown another set of the most wonderful of varieties which I will Winter Sow, half this year and half next year. T Here is a link that might be useful: Solstice Sow