Carolyn, thank you very much for the diagnosis. After looking at many pictures and reading up on it a bit I would have to agree that it may very well be a fungal infection. It is a good and bad thing at the same time. It is good because I know that my new batch of hydro fertilizer has all the trace elements it is supposed to have but bad because now I have to treat the plants. I think this happened because my plants grew very large and bushy covering each other from sun and air. I just recently pruned them and noticed that I was losing a plant and that they had leaf spots. Next season I will definitely be pruning them so that they allow ample air flow and sunlight to keep the plants from remaining wet after morning dew or a rain shower. Are other members of Solanaceae affected blight or leaf spots? I didn't see anything in my research and my eggplant, and peppers seem unaffected.

I went through the same exercise a year ago and chose the 36" Wolf cooktop, a Wolf single oven with a Wolf convection/microwave on top. I have been using them for four months and am very satisfied. I chose the cooktop because (1) Wolf has a good reputation for quality and service, (2) I liked the layout of the burners, the placement of the knobs on top and the backlit indicators that a burner was on, and (3) the appearance of the grates which are very solid. I was also influenced by the fact that we are using propane and Wolf makes both an LP and a NG version, rather than having the system retrofit by an installer, which is true for some brands. I cook a fair amount but don't need all the burners to be high BTUs as they are on the range tops. I purchased a separate All Clad griddle which straddles two burners nicely. Previously I had cooked only on electric stoves. The one thing I notice with the cooktop is the need to be careful not to turn the burners too high or the flames come up the sides of the pot and cause scorching. It may be that the Thermador star design is better in this regard as the Wolf burners appear to heat the edges of the pot faster than the interior of the bottom. However, the simmer is fantastic. It never needs to be adjusted. The ovens were a more difficult choice for me. I went with the Wolf in large part because of appearance. My ovens are placed next to the Sub Zero fridge and everything matches nicely. The regular single convection oven is a good size. It bakes and roasts well; the broiler is nothing special. I have put three trays of cookies in at once and they all cooked perfectly. You do have to remove the racks for cleaning. Some GE ovens are attractive because the racks can stay in. I notice that there is much more spattering of grease in a convection oven than my older conventional one. Therefore I remove unused racks when roasting meat or poultry. The controls look complicated but are actually fairly intuitive once you go through them once. All in all an excellent choice but I am not sure the performance is any better than less expensive ovens. I was unsure about the convection microwave. It is, as Wolf readily acknowledges, a Sharp or Panasonic product with an expensive trim kit. The exterior is black plastic and not up to the standard of the regular oven. However, the microwave works well. It has about 100 watts less power than a regular microwave but that does not seem to make a huge difference. I was surprised that I use the small convection oven as much as I do. I use it for warming bread or leftovers and cooking small pieces of fish or chicken. It heats up quickly and is probably much more energy efficient than using the large oven for these tasks. It worked well for baking a single pie crust but I use the larger oven for cakes. I also use the convection oven for warming plates or holding side dishes as I did not get a warming drawer. Hope this helps. Wolf was a good choice for me but I am sure there are other options.

Tinker_2006, I think the dissonance I'm experiencing is because of the highly patterned bedskirt. I think it's beautiful, but it seems like it calls out for an unpatterned comforter or duvet so that you get that soft, smooth lofted look contrasting with the busily patterned bedskirt. You could repeat the eyelet with trim on pillow shams. Also, I like a more decadent look that includes Euro pillows, but that's just personal preference. If I can, later I will try to find some pictures showing what I mean.

Just got this E-Mail answer back, I may toss them as they are a dwarf variety...MM Thank you for your enquiry. There is a very good reason why we do not put the height of this tomato on our tickets as it depends very much on how it is grown. It is a naturally dwarf tomato that is often grown in pots in a sunny position. If grown well I have seen plants grow in excess of 2m but normally 1m is the norm. The fruit size is medium and they do not normally spread more than 45cm especially if lateral growth (sideshoots) are removed to form a single stem and focus the plants energies on fruit set and development rather than foliage/shoot growth. I hope this information is of help. Happy gardening,