I don't see myself in Kansas any time soon, tdscpa, but I do like the price. I shall work on it!!! Thanks for the tip to Quail mfg, I have it bookmarked now and if I can't find a used one they will probably get my business. Mainman, thanks for directing me to that article, found it both interesting and useful. And finally, mla20fus, I spent many hours with a "Pulaski" in Northern CA, and just remembering the times, the heat, the smoke and the climbing makes me thirsty with a backache ! ! !

Um okay sorry for not clarifying but the parts in FL I would be growing this stuff in would either be Southern FL in these areas..... I've found a map of chill hours for the entire state of Florida. The link for it is provided below. You'll have to copy and paste it into the browser manually; I don't know why, but it doesn't show up as a hyper link that you can just click on and it'll redirect to the site via opening a new page. http://www.justfruitsandexotics.com/USDAZones.htm Fort Myers Naples Miami Tampa Saint Petersburg All of those zones listed have garden zones ranging from 9A-10B. The other areas would be in northern Florida and they would be in the panhandle of Florida..... These cities include... Jacksonville Pensacola Tallahassee Panama City Callahan Yulee Middleburg Also I was wondering if in northern Florida, it would be possible to grow traditional varieties of apple trees. By traditional I mean traditional, not the tropical hybrids designed for warmer climates. From what I've heard, their taste is inferior, which to me defeats the purpose of growing them. What I mean by fruit trees is peaches, pears, plums, apples, and plums. Also this is off topic, but since Florida is so well known for Citrus, would it be possible to grow it in the northern areas of FL or would it be too cold? I honestly don't know that's why I'm asking. I'd also like to know if you can grow tropical varieties of fruit such as bananas, pineapple, guava, etc.

And by "en-masse", I mean roughly enough to be able to chew through enough fruit to easily give me 2-3 gallons of juice. I understand cooking the fruit down will also yield more juice, but for products such as "fresh-squeezed" orange juice or lemonade, doing such a thing isnt as ideal seeing that it would partly take away from its "freshness".

80,000 year old aspen grove, Remarkable indeed seeing how they would have been underneath a mile of ice at the time :) Recently my part of the country hosted their annual nursery trade show with 960 vendors. Wanna know how many were displaying bearberry??? Zilch, Nada, Nary a one. Its just not a plant seen very often around here. I've seen it only one time in a cultivated setting, along a govt building in DC where it grew happily. Undeterred by bad luck at the trade show I did in fact find a wholesale nursery in New Jersey with a beautiful supply of plants, not that it bothers me but this is clearly a clone, no berries.