"Mohave_Kid; I'm assuming you are a professional grower: your livelihood depends on the implimentation of sanitary protocols in a greenhouse environment, don't they?? " Well ... LOL ... I want to grow a small 4 foot by 4 foot square foot garden for my chicken soup .. LOL .. and about 40 - 50 tomatos for an in my garage low budget experiment. In my job I work with "big" plants .. that is they are already grown up .. well sort of ..... my job is to plant them and manage them to full adulthood and then old age. I'm embarrassed to admit my lack of experience growing things from seed !!!! It's just not in my job description. The only seed I grow is grass seed and not the kind you smoke. I find it funny how some of these items seem to be designed so well for germination on a budget. Good Day ...

Sue, another source might be the Knouse Foods plants near Gettysburg, PA. Plastic drums that fruit conc. was shipped in. They have a liner in them, so as a rule the drums are clean enough to eat out of. Plants are in Inwood, WV, Biglerville, Orrtanna, Peach Glen (hdqtrs), Gardeners and Chambersburg, PA. Also Duffy Mott apple processing in Gardeners, PA may have them. They can be found on the lawn of a house (for sale) on the road from B-ville to Hanover and also on the road from Orrtanna to Arndtsville.

That was an interesting link, taddy. Thanks! The recycling in my area has never requested that we separate glass. Steve, when you mentioned the "neck/no-neck" thing, it reminded me of how amazed I was when my mom told me that her recycling program would only take wide-mouth glass jars - or was it that they would NOT take wide-mouth glass jars? But either way, I couldn't believe that they would distinguish between these. Maybe I'm naive and don't know enough about the process, but it seems to me that a jar is a jar! Oh well, the good news is that now her program takes all jars. In looking through that link, I was intrigued by how many different things could "contaminate" the process. I was never aware of that. Now I wonder that programs never asked us to remove labels from cans and especially jars. We have a local "garbage museum" that my kids have visited several times on school trips. Maybe I should make a visit and learn more about the process! :) Dee

If this is what you're refering to it seems like a cool idea. http://www.amazon.com/Woodlink-NAGGBB-Audubon-Going-Bluebird/dp/B001C4AC5Q/ref=pd_sim_sbs_lg_3 Keep us posted on what happens with the new houses. I myself am trying some new houses this season. I made 3 houses from regular white 4" pvc pipe. The same measurements of the gilbertson pvc box. I also haven't had any activity in them except for a chickadee started a nest in one but moved to a different box. I am thinking maybe they don't like them as well because the color inside is white and not dark in color. I put them out in April so I may have been a little late but its still early in the season. If no bird tries them this season I will stain or paint the inside of the box dark and try again next season.