Thanks bayme and ewalk for sharing. IÂll settle and finish enough projects to get serious with software soon. Since retirement life has gotten harder with too many options (volunteering and friends needs). I value my time outside and my past, which is holding me close to Fishing, Firewood, BBQ/Smoking and Mechanics/Construction. These have been my interest vs vocation. For now IÂll try to get my links to work until I go back and see what IÂm missing with the open image option. Posting the HTML code in my text might be my mistake vs sharing the code as a link (to copy, paste, and search). Is a copy, paste, search that painful to open a link? More Project Examples: 1. I have not had many decent catches since 03Âs retirement (TX heat and droughts vs age, LOL). 2. Building grills and BBQ/Smoking/Grilling has been a challenge since 1970. 3. The present grill grew from a gas grill to where it is today over 25-30 years. http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/JOW_06/Joes6-28-02FishHarvest.jpg?t=1279929547 http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/JOW_06/Joes6-24-02FishHarvest.jpg?t=1279929740 http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/JOW_06/FishTalk4442.jpg?t=1279929953 http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/JOW_06/MesquiteSmokedRibsTradedForPecanWood.jpg? http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/JOW_06/MesquiteSmokedRibsTradedForPecanWood2.jpg? http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/JOW_06/ChickenFajitasCutTest.jpg?t=1279933610 http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/JOW_06/Grilling-Quing-Smoking2-17-07goodsmokew- http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af312/JOW_06/Grilling-Quing-Smoking2-17-07goodacesstofire.jpg? loger

has any one tried using praetor nematodes and praetor mites to control spider mite, broad mites and thrips. They are like little lions feeding on the pests, praetor nematodes live in the ground killing any thing they find and most of the pest live part of their live there. Thrips spend the first part of there live under ground. The praetor nematodes come in a little sponge that you cut 1/3 of put in a spray bottle of water and let it sit for a 1/2 hour, shake it up and spray the surface potting mixe and then water them in good. It cost $18.00and the 2/3 that you have not used put in the cooler and treat you plants ever 2 weeks till it is gone. They will live on the sponge in the cooler for 6 weeks. I also treat my plants with praetor mites at the same time , they like to find the bad mites and lay their egg among the spider mites and broad mites eggs . When the praetor mites they are hunger an the love to eat mite eggs. they come in several different ways praetor mites"NEOSEIULUS CUCUMERIS" come in quick release packets $1.99 and it is enough to treat 1-2 plant racks 4 shelves 48 in. long. You springily the product which looks (it is ) wood saw dust over the plants It is import to do these after dark. sun light kills praetor mites nematodes & praetor mites mites!!!! Praetor mites"NEOSEIULUS CUCUMERIS"also come in slow release pack $1.99, you but pack on each shelve and as they hatch they leave the pack ove 6 week periodAs a Added protection !!! They best thing is they very best Insecticides /Miticides likeForbid 4F Miticide, Avid EC Miticide and Marathon a systemic insecticides do not kill the praetor nematodes and praetor mites so you can still use them!!!! YOU CAN NOT USE NEEM OIL Why because it kills every thing even the good praetor bugs then you have nothing to keep spider mite, broad mites and thrips under control!!! The day beforetaking your plants to a show put NEOSEIULUS CUCUMERIS mites "in the slow release pack in your box with your warping- material and leave it there for the whole trip with your plants

shropshire_lad, the nasturtiums have reseeded themselves ever since we first landscaped this area in 2005. I just bought several packets of nasturtium seeds in different colors and scattered them around. Now they're wildly intermingled! Naturally, the two I like most - the dark red nasturtiums and the variegated Alaska series - are the least vigorous. The dark red, in fact, never returns for me although I've spread seeds at least three times....oh well, guess I'll have to stick with orange, yellow, and cream, LOL. BTW, I gave the wrong info above to plantmaven about our sideyard setbacks. I believe code calls for 10' setbacks for new construction, but that's total width - so 5' each for my house and the neighbor's house, side by side. The fence on the south side actually sits a little inside our property line by a few inches, so it's a tight space to have double plantings bordering the walkway! I have more room on the north side because my neighbor lets us use her concrete walkway, so I have one big bed that both of us can enjoy. In fact, when you face my house, part of that left-hand side front yard bed is actually my neighbor's property. I got her permission to landscape it together with my plantings, rather than putting up a fence that would divide her 3' side from my larger area. If you look at Photo #5, the 'Yellow Wave' phormium is smack on the borderline between her property and mine. So actually, those poppies and red salvia are trespassing. But she doesn't mind at all!

Jay, Interesting review. You grew lots of plants that I have never heard of but sound interesting. Some of your list is also on my 'always grow' list as well. It amazes me that your plants still look nice and are still producing when mine have been gone so long. Although all plants always seem to thrive on the many spring showers that we have, I think it adds to the blight issues on tomatoes. My plants don't last nearly as long as yours. This year, I didn't start watering my garden plants early enough and some suffered from neglect. Since I rarely water 'in ground' in a normal year, I just didn't realize how dry they were. By the time I started to water, they already had issues. I have read several years now about the commercial types of tomatoes and I think you sent me seeds for one, but I have not grown it yet. I am going to add either the Campbell or Heinz one next year. Are those plants small enough that you could crowd them a little? I had lovely tomatoes this year, but they all had a lot of juice and I need a good, heavy producer that is a little drier. One batch of salsa that I made this year was just too thin. I labeled it as such and plan to use it in cooking. I used a pint of it this week for some Spanish Rice and it was great, so it won't go to waste. Almost all of my tomato plants were pulled early, but a few survived because they were just in out of the way places. Of those, Sioux seems to be doing the best. It has received some water because I water the peppers that are close to it. I think it might be a good one to leave in the garden for a later crop in my climate. I may consider starting it a little later and putting it in where I take out spring crops. It seemed to tolerate the seriously hot and dry summer that we had this year. I will certainly have to plant Royal Hillbilly again because it produced the largest tomatoes I grew this season. I didn't take it out, but did cut it back drasticly. It is still alive but I don't know if it will produce again. Besides your tomato plants looking great in late August when mine are long gone, I did notice a couple of other things that were different. Did you plant more than one kind of cowhorn okra? I planted the cowhorn like the package I sent to you and mine is ten feet tall. It produces mostly on the top and I have to grab the plants and pull them down so I can cut it. Your cowhorn appeared to be short and bushy. In fact, I planted mine near a walkway thinking it would be easy to pick from there and instead I have to shove it away to make it down the path. The taste is great but my location choice was poor. I think I will work on the soil along the north fence line so I can plant this at the very north end next year. The other thing that I noticed is your Black Cherry tomatoes. Is that the size you always get? Did you use commercial seed or one from a friend? I have planted seeds from several commercial sources and my Black Cherries have larger fruit than yours. In your picture of the cherry tomatoes, your Sungold looked as large as the Black Cherry. In my garden, Sungold is a normal sized cherry tomato, but Black Cherry is a large cherry, with all of them being much larger than Sungold. Your three favorite cherries look like great choices to me since I love both Black Cherry and Sungold. We ate a lot of cherry tomatoes because I planted heavy thinking I would dry a few. I was not happy with the results, so we just ate a lot of them. LOL Your apple tree looks great. I don't have fruit trees, but my DIL picked her tree and brought me a huge box of Granny Smiths from it. It took me all week to get them processed but it is worth it. Be sure to make some 'Apple Pie Jam'. She said she only brought me a third of what her tree produced. I made jam, apple pie filling, apple butter, apple sauce, and canned plain apples for use in baking. I did the plain ones because I could get a ton of those into a jar and I was getting tired of processing apples. LOL I would think they would be perfect for a huge apple cobbler mid-winter. We are having nice weather and I haven't been able to take advantage of it. I went to the doctor last Tuesday with a request for meds and thought I had a sinus infection that was playing havoc with my ears. I started 3 kinds of meds that night and got worse each day. Yesterday I couldn't stand it any longer and went back for new meds. I knew I needed an antibiotic and kept trying to take that one but felt that it was probably the one making me sick. I seem to be tolerating this one OK, but I am trying to stay away from pollens until I am better. I enjoyed looking at your pictures and felt as if I had strolled through your garden. I will continue to pray for your step-Dad and assume his health will improve after his treatment. I think you are the type to take a lot of responsibility onto your shoulders, so be careful and don't try to run faster than you have strength. You need to stay strong and healthy.