CMK, that is interesting about eggplant liking pots. I started planting a salad garden in pots and window boxes on my back deck a few years ago. I didn't really think about eggplant though. I'll have to try it this year. I find that leaf lettuce does very well in window boxes. I also grow baby cukes in pots and let them trail down the deck railings. I've also done peppers and tomatoes in pots. I mix in a few small pots of nicotiana (not near the tomatoes...does that really cause problems?? i've heard they should not be combined) so the hummingbirds come to feed. Woodyoak, how deep are the windowboxes you use to grow carrots? And which carrots do you choose to grow in them? I've been seeing more pictures of large pots in amongst plants in the garden and I think I may try to experiment more with that. Does anyone have pictures of pots fully incorporated into their perennial/shrub borders as a focal point? Also, does everyone in wintry climates bring their pots inside in the winter? Has anyone found a type of pot that does not crack with the freeze/thaw cycles of winter?

1) Crassula Ovata (all varieties): This is a "beginners succulent", probably the first one of many people and I really like it's tree like apparence, glossy leave and resilence 2) "Architectonical succulents": that's how I call succulent whhich form remind me the structure of buldings, such as haworthia reinwardtii and crassula buddha's temple 3) Aloe Aristata: it was love a first sight Runner ups: kalanchoe fedtschenkoi, kalanchoe luciele. burro's tail and haworthia attenuata I definely have a thing for symetrical structure and bright colors

My favorite Aloe in my collection is A. plicatilis. My A. pillansii, A. marlothii, A. candelabrum, A. speciosa, A. excelsa, A. dichotoma, A. ramosissima, and A. barberae are all right there in the hierarchy. Luckily I have a lot of room so can grow them to mature sizes. I need to put my A. 'Hercules' in the ground as well as a variegated A. ferox and a few others. The recent rains have transformed dirt into foot tall weeds recently. The rains have also plumped up some sorry dried out Aloes to healthy turgidity again so I can't complain.

I love games....I picked up a game once on clearance at Marshalls. It was called Times To Remember. It's a trivia game with questions ranging from the 1950s to mid-90s. I thought it was very clever and have never seen another trivia game quite like it. (my description below) So if you're over 40, you'll love this game. You can play with two people or two teams. I forget the actual rules...but we play like this: You both have a big round disc with years marked. Then you have these big paperclips with 'year spans'. Questions are asked to BOTH teams at the same time and you must guess the year (with year span clips 1 thru 7). Be sure to whisper and point...you don't want your opponents to hear you. If you know a question 100%, then use your ONE YEAR clip. If you have no clue, use your 7 YEAR CLIP. First team to get rid of all their clips wins. It's currently on Ebay...if you're a game queen like me....get it. Just about everyone that plays it, thinks it's fun. Younger people tend to have a tougher time with it. But what makes it fun...is you don't have to be a genius! You might just 'kinda know' or have an 'inkling' or you remember what grade you were in when it happened....so it's a lot of fun. The questions range from super easy...to 'how in the heck would I know'!